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Chapter 79 Silent Forest (3)

Youlong stepped forward and knelt on the ground. Just as he reached out to touch the red light at the base of the pine tree, he heard a low hum rise from the ground.

The next second, the ground trembled slightly.

"Watch out, there's something unusual!" He had barely spoken when the tremors suddenly intensified!

The ground seemed to come alive and suddenly bulged up, followed by a patch of moss collapsing, like a wound after some skin was torn open, and a dark crack suddenly swallowed the land beneath An Jing's feet!

"Hey?"

Caught off guard, An Jing lost her footing and fell to the ground, her elbows and knees slamming into the rough mud.

She instinctively reached out to push herself up, only to find that the ground had changed.

It was no longer real soil, but some kind of damp, sticky, cold substance, like a swampy tongue covered with cells, licking her arms and legs little by little, and then seizing the opportunity to pull her down, as if to swallow her into the abyss!

"Quiet!!"

Seeing that her hands and feet were already embedded in the mud, Youlong shouted and rushed forward with lightning speed, grabbing her upper body and pulling her out!

But the moment he grabbed her, the ground seemed to have identified its prey, and a stronger suction suddenly increased!

"Damn it!" Youlong roared, pulling back sharply, but felt his feet sink as well.

He looked down, and the soil beneath his feet began to swirl into a black liquid, gradually engulfing his shoes and then his ankles and knees!
"Captain!" Dongqing exclaimed, rushing forward immediately, but Yunji grabbed her arm, saying, "Don't go! We'll be dragged in if we go now!"

"What do we do?!" Dongqing's eyes were red. "Anjing and the captain are going to be sucked in!"

"Quickly get the props out!" Yunji immediately started searching.

But time was running out; the ground instantly pulled the two of them underground, giving no time for anyone else to react.

"It's over!" An Jing felt dizzy, and the next second he was suddenly pulled down.

But it wasn't the feeling of being buried in the soil; instead, it felt like entering a golden tunnel.

The entire tunnel spun rapidly before her eyes, as if she were in some kind of huge underground space, surrounded by sticky, slippery walls, the space twisting and extending downwards.

"Are you alright?" Youlong's voice came close to my ear.

She then realized that Youlong had somehow pulled her into his arms, supporting her back with one hand and protecting the back of her head with the other, controlling their descent speed.

"I'm fine!" An Jing shouted, his voice echoing eerily in the distorting space.

She struggled to lift her head, looked at Xu Yanyi, and couldn't help but blurt out, "Why did you follow me down here? It's obvious you're here for me."

"How dare you say that!" You Long was furious and slapped her head hard.

"Hey!" An Jing exclaimed, "Why are you hitting people!"

“You are my priority mission. Protecting you is a mission personally assigned to me by He Lin.” You Long’s tone was cold and hard. “Do you think I wanted to come down here? But if something happens to you, how am I supposed to go back and explain it to He Lin? She might scatter my ashes!”

An Jing: "Then you shouldn't have come along. If you fell in and I got caught, what about the other three?"

Youlong's face darkened: "They'll be fine. You should worry about yourself."

An Jing pursed her lips and quietly put away her stubborn statement that she could save herself.

She really hadn't expected the ground to suddenly turn into a swamp that could swallow people.

Very strange.

The two of them slid down this strange passage, where the terrain undulated and the space occasionally twisted into a spiral, as if they were being swallowed, chewed, and pushed by a spiritual intestine.

After sliding for an unknown amount of time, the surrounding mucous membrane-like walls suddenly became transparent, revealing some strange patterns, like hand-painted talismans from an old era, but also mixed with mysterious script.

At the end of the slide, a thin, dark red membrane vaguely obscured the exit. "We're going to crash!" An Jing whispered.

"It's okay, I'll protect you." Youlong immediately tightened his grip, his arms clenching as he pushed off the side wall with his legs to try and reduce the impact.

"Oh!"

They passed through that thin film, as if they had crossed some kind of transparent barrier.

And at the same time.

on the ground

"How could this happen!" Dongqing paced anxiously, looking at the ground which had returned to normal. He squatted down and kept digging at the mud with his hands. The mud was indeed normal now, as if it hadn't swallowed people just now.

Yunji looked grave. The magnetometer in his hand had been restarted, but it couldn't detect anything else.

“It was like the entire entrance was sealed off instantly,” he said. “I’ve never seen this type of trap before.”

"What about Anjing and the captain?" Dongqing had already pulled out his secondary weapon. "Should we dig them up?"

"Calm down." You Xin also came over. As the lamplighter, she had experienced more and was more composed. Her expression was more serious than ever before. "We need to find out what kind of structure this is first."

She looked down at the ground, stared for a moment, and then said softly, "They may have fallen into a multi-layered magnetic field, and their location may have shifted to another dimension of the magnetic field."

"What do you mean?" Dongqing was taken aback.

“You can think of it this way: they didn’t fall into the ground, but were swallowed up by the magnetic field,” Xin Huansheng explained. “The current surface is the outer shell, which can be understood as them being sucked into the core.”

"Then how do we get in?"

"I don't know." You Xin turned to look into the depths of the forest, waiting for the entrance to appear automatically. "I don't know anything else."

"Huh?" Dongqing and Yunji exclaimed in unison.

Xin nodded, his voice calm: "I'll contact the captain. In short, don't rush."

She paused, then said, "I'll contact headquarters and have the technical team retrieve the holographic data here. But until then, you must guard this place and prevent any further incidents."

"understand!"

The three immediately adjusted their formation and held their ground.

And at the same time.

Deep in the magnetic field
An Jing and You Long finally stopped.

They landed in a cave-like space, with a single, translucent rock ceiling overhead, through which fine red veins could be faintly seen running.

The ground was soft but not slippery, like a living floating platform.

An Jing struggled to climb out of You Long's arms, dusted himself off, and asked, "Where is this?"

Youlong stood up and looked around: "I don't know. Did you notice those murals?"

He pointed to the rock face.

An Jing looked in that direction and saw a series of strange totems carved on the wall, with a sphere in the middle and three vertical lines engraved on it.

Below the sphere, there are also many runes engraved.

An Jing's expression changed slightly: "This is..."

Youlong said in a deep voice, "I feel that what we have found is not just the mysterious magnetic field."

(End of this chapter)