Mobile Shelter

"After the temporary camp was disbanded, we traveled with several other convoys, and the route was roughly the same as the one we had planned before, without deviating much from the original route."

However, we see a huge building to the southwest. The other convoys have high-powered telescopes and they're seeing a massive spaceship. Dong Qi, you're not inside that spaceship right now, are you?

Upon hearing Lu Ziye's question, Dong Qi made no attempt to hide anything and directly admitted, "Yes, I am on this spaceship right now, but I haven't entered the spaceship."

As you know, to upgrade my vehicle, I need an enormous amount of metal, so upon seeing this spaceship, I immediately began dismantling the metal materials from the top.

Upon hearing Dong Qi's words, Yin An immediately retorted with some skepticism, "Don't tell me you're not curious about what good stuff is inside this spaceship, that you'd abandon the items inside and just slowly dismantle the spaceship's outer shell like this."

Before Dong Qi could even explain his doubts to Yin An, Liu Yi voiced his guess: "Are you stupid? Dong Qi is only dismantling this spaceship from the outside. When he reaches the room containing the treasures, those treasures will all belong to Dong Qi."

"You're the idiot. It's such an eye-catching spaceship. Everyone's not blind to see it. If anyone else saw it, wouldn't they be curious and sneak inside to explore?"

Don't forget that when Dong Qi left, several convoys immediately chased after him in the direction he went.

While Dong Qi was slowly dismantling the spaceship from the outside, those people wouldn't give him enough time.

After hearing Yin An's explanation, the others immediately realized what was going on, and then Lu Ziye asked directly, "Have you noticed anyone else approaching the spaceship?"

"Some people have already entered the spaceship, quite a few, probably around forty or fifty people."

Dong Qi wasn't stupid either. After his chariot climbed to the top of the spaceship using a robotic arm, he immediately arranged for drones to monitor the situation in other areas of this secret realm.

After all, apart from the spaceship, the rest of this secret realm has been cleared out by Dong Qi.

Even so, Dong Qi would not be careless. While dismantling the spaceship, he dispatched drones to monitor the surrounding area.

But it's just monitoring; even if he sees other convoys entering the spaceship to explore, Dong Qi won't pay much attention.

The others were puzzled by Dong Qi's calm demeanor, given that he already knew someone had entered the spaceship.

Perhaps having guessed what the others were thinking, Dong Qi didn't wait for them to ask and directly explained, "Have you all forgotten what my main purpose was in coming here?"

They didn't want to enter the spaceship to collect supplies, but rather to obtain enough metal materials by dismantling the spaceship.

I don't really care if other people get a lot of things after entering the spaceship.

Even if they loot the entire spaceship, as long as it doesn't interfere with my collection of metal materials, it won't have much of an impact on me.

After hearing Dong Qi's explanation, the others instantly understood his idea.

Before they could ask any more questions, Dong Qi said, "Don't think that you can find all sorts of items just by entering the spaceship."

Even though I dismantled it layer by layer, I still triggered quite a few traps. Those people ignored everything and went straight into the spaceship. I reckon that even if they manage to obtain valuable items, they will probably suffer heavy losses.

In my opinion, this spaceship is actually a huge maze, full of traps. To get the treasures inside, you'd probably have to risk your life.

Several days have passed since those people entered the spaceship. Under normal circumstances, even if they don't return to the convoy for repairs, someone should be sent to notify the personnel remaining outside.

But now that those people have entered the spaceship, not a single one has reappeared. I reckon those who entered the spaceship are very likely all wiped out.

After hearing Dong Qi's warning, no one paid much attention to it, thinking that Dong Qi was exaggerating.

However, although this was what they actually thought, others also kept it in mind for the time being.

"Alright, let's not discuss the right and wrong of this matter for now. Anyway, judging from the current direction the convoy is heading, it should be heading in the direction of this spaceship."

I reckon it won't be long before we're able to reach the spaceship and meet up with you.

However, barring any unforeseen circumstances, there should be quite a few people going this time. We'll discuss the specifics when we meet.

Lu Ziye abruptly ended the conversation.

Dong Qi wasn't too worried about the others arriving. As he said before, he didn't care about the items inside the spaceship; what he wanted was the metal of the entire spaceship.

However, Lu Ziye's words still affected Dong Qi's actions. Originally, Dong Qi was just slowly disassembling the vehicle using the mechanical arm of his own car.

Knowing that the others would arrive soon, Dong Qi immediately upgraded the mechanical guards to level 20, released four-armed slashers to assist in the dismantling, and used shield guards and simulated scouts to carry them away.

The drones could only monitor the exterior of the spacecraft, so Dong Qi was unaware that all the personnel who had entered the spacecraft to explore had been wiped out.

Just as Dong Qi was methodically completing the demolition, a large convoy of vehicles, which had converged from several other convoys, finally arrived.

When the convoy arrived here, the first thing they saw were the vehicles from the convoy that had arrived earlier.

Most of the members of the convoy had already entered the spaceship, leaving only a few people outside to guard the vehicles.

Those who stayed behind to look after the vehicles were mostly ordinary people.

To be honest, at this time of year, for ordinary people without the protection of a motorcade, owning a vehicle is like a child holding gold.

When the other convoys arrived, they saw that only a few ordinary people were guarding the vehicles, and some of them immediately had ulterior motives.

In just one night, the convoy that had previously entered the spaceship to explore, along with the personnel who had stayed behind to watch over the vehicles, seemed to have vanished after dawn and never reappeared.

The vehicles that remained behind gradually joined other convoys without anyone noticing.

Through the radio, Lu Ziye learned a lot of information about the interior of the spaceship from Dong Qi. Therefore, when he gathered with the other team leaders to discuss exploring the spaceship, he directly refused.

But no one in the room was a fool, and they would not believe Lu Ziye's crude excuse. Even if the others knew it was an excuse, no one deliberately exposed it.

After all, the logical thinking is that if one less caravan goes on the exploration, the others will have a better chance of obtaining more items.

If we think about it more deeply, after the last exploration of the secret realm, we can be sure that Lu Ziye is not a coward, after all, their caravan went deep into it back then.

When he was invited again this time, Lu Ziye refused without hesitation. From his decisive refusal, one could guess that the interior of this spaceship must be extremely dangerous.

But as the saying goes, the bigger the waves, the more valuable the fish; the more dangerous the area, the more treasures will appear.

People die for wealth, birds die for food; take a gamble and your bicycle might turn into a motorcycle.

So even though Lu Ziye's reaction suggested that the interior of the spaceship was extremely dangerous, many people didn't care.

However, some clever people, after discovering Lu Ziye's decisive refusal, perhaps because their convoy had a large amount of supplies stored up, or perhaps because they had other ideas, also temporarily refused to send anyone to explore.

To be honest, I don't know if this is a good time for awakened beings.

Although Awakened Ones gradually gain privileges as their strength grows, dangerous tasks such as exploring secret realms still require them to take the lead, and they must remain the main force.

As the strength of awakened individuals continues to increase, the gap between them and ordinary people continues to widen.

Therefore, many things that are just a simple matter for the awakened can be extremely important to ordinary people.

In most secret realms, without awakened individuals leading the exploration, even if many ordinary people go in, it's like throwing meat buns to a dog—a one-way trip with no return.

Entering the secret realm for exploration also means danger. Although awakened beings are strong, it does not mean they are invincible.

Therefore, exploring new secret realms is a high-risk, high-reward task, even for those who have awakened.

Lu Ziye and the other team leaders who were unwilling to participate in the matter left first. Not long after the meeting, those teams that were willing to send people into the spaceship to explore arranged for at least one-fifth of their team members, and in some cases, more than half of their team members.

The spaceship's hull might have the ability to block signals. After those people entered the spaceship, they didn't send any messages for a day, two days, three days...

As time went on, the caravans that sent people into the secret realm never received any feedback from the advance team.

Five days have passed, and everyone has recalled the changes in the internal environment of the previous secret realm after they retreated. The period before the secret realm disappeared was a deadly place where anyone who entered would die.

Others, thinking about this, wondered if the same thing might happen inside the spaceship.

Compared to the anxiety of the other teams, Lu Ziye was in a relatively good mood because he could contact Dong Qi every day and had not sent anyone into the spaceship to explore.

In particular, some members of the convoys that sent people into the interior of the spaceships to explore but received no feedback began to have ulterior motives, and thus started to resell the large, inconvenient-to-carry supplies inside the convoys.

Therefore, whether it's the Wind Chasing Team or other teams that didn't send anyone into the spaceship to explore, they are now secretly exchanging supplies with longer shelf lives for items of higher value.

Especially when Ji Yunting spent a small amount of resources to abduct a former school beauty from another convoy and boasted about it on the radio.

Those smaller convoys, though not officially disbanded, began to lose personnel at an accelerated pace.

No one could have imagined that the other racing teams would be reshuffled in just a few days.

The main reason for this is that the convoys that wanted to enter the spaceship for exploration only brought one-fifth or even more than half of the crew members.

However, after seeing Lu Ziye's reaction, for their own safety, they brought along some of the most capable key members of the team.

Regardless of the organization, the fewer people there are, the more likely the leader will charge into battle when danger arises.

Because no matter what kind of organization it is, when there are few people, the organization's cohesion basically relies on the personal charisma of the leader.

Furthermore, in order to obtain valuable items in the secret realm, it is necessary to send an Awakened One to lead the team.

At this point, only those who have awakened their superpowers can become the team leader and win the hearts and minds of the rest of the team.

The disappearance of the team leader would be a huge blow to the team. If the team's stronger members also went missing, the entire team would become extremely vulnerable.

But no one expected that after some teams absorbed other teams, for some reason, they became ambitious and summoned the team leaders of other teams again, wanting to invite them to explore the spaceship in front of them.

I don't know why, even with such obvious precedents, some people would still be foolish enough to make this suggestion again.

For some reason, his foolish suggestion actually garnered the approval of some people.

Then the same thing happened again: the convoy that wanted to explore the spaceship was once again led by the team leader, with more than half of the members entering the spaceship.

When another five days passed, Lu Ziye realized that someone in the Wind Chasing Team had actually traded supplies for vehicles.

For some reason, these people seemed a bit carried away. Logically speaking, if they didn't want to explore the spaceship, they could have simply left. Why were they staying here?

Staying here before might be useful, to wait for the members who went inside the spaceship to return and see what they could bring out.

But knowing that everyone who entered the spaceship had lost contact and that the spaceship had become a dead end, why didn't they just leave instead of lingering there?

If it were said that these people were just wasting their time here, it could be explained with some far-fetched reasons.

But those team members who have already disbanded, whether they were accepted by other teams or secretly sold off supplies that were difficult to carry from their original teams and were preparing to leave on their own.

Surprisingly, no one actually left. All the convoys that approached the spaceship, regardless of their choices, never gave anyone the thought of leaving.

And the longer they stayed here, the stronger their desire to enter the spaceship and explore became.

Once he realized what was happening, Lu Ziye immediately summoned the other official members of the team and started an internal meeting.

"Don't you guys think we've been here a bit too long? Shouldn't we keep going?"

Upon hearing Lu Ziye's question, Kou Hai casually replied, "Aren't we waiting here for Dong Qi to return to the team? Why do we need to leave?"

Upon hearing Kou Hai's reply, the others immediately displayed strange expressions. After all, Kou Hai and Dong Qi did not have a good relationship, so it would have been normal for anyone to say those words, but it was unusual for them to come from Kou Hai.

Lu Ziye did not continue to question Kou Hai, but instead turned his attention to the other team members.

Noticing Lu Ziye's gaze, Yin An hesitated for a moment before revealing his thoughts: "The main force of those caravans has lost contact, now is a good time to buy at rock-bottom prices. Staying here, we can buy a lot of good stuff at low prices."

Then Ji Yunting spoke up, "We've been in a bit of a rush lately, and now that we can finally rest for a while, I think we should relax a bit and not rush to leave here."

After Ji Yunting finished expressing his thoughts, and with Lu Ziye's gaze following, the others also spoke up one by one.

After hearing that everyone else was unwilling to leave for all sorts of strange reasons, Lu Ziye immediately understood. It seemed that everyone else in the convoy had fallen into the same trap; subconsciously, no one wanted to leave.

As expected, any remnant of another world that can form a secret realm is not someone to be trifled with.

Fortunately, at this point, only the subconscious mind of the people was changed, and no one's thoughts were distorted.

"Li Feng, what I'm about to say needs to be kept secret. Make a barrier to isolate us from the outside environment."

When Li Feng released his supernatural power and enveloped everyone, they all shivered. Their previously dazed minds seemed to have been suddenly doused with a bucket of ice water, instantly invigorating them.

Only after they "woke up" did the group realize their previous abnormal behavior.

"Captain Lu, have we been infected?"

"We must have been hypnotized, making us all subconsciously ignore the fact that we could leave this place."

It's only now that I realize why those people would risk their lives to enter the spaceship for exploration.

After the option to leave is removed, unless one already has the intention to stay, the thought of exploring the interior of the spaceship will inevitably arise.