Fantasy Game: Infinite City

"What was that chemical you said you smelled in the cab of the truck used for?"

"In the early days, once I fell into an unconscious state, I would basically have some energy runaway. Although these energies did not necessarily cause any destructive consequences, I had to replace a lot of furniture and equipment because of this. After I met Garcia, she used a chemical she developed as a sedative for me."

"If the reason those guys in the back of the truck are in this state now is not because of what they found here, but because of that chemical, then it seems that the effect of that chemical may not be what she said it was."

"Probably."

Han Zu and Gloria were chatting in the corridor inside the pyramid. Although the material of the pyramid was completely different from that of a normal pyramid, the internal structure was no different from that of an ordinary pyramid. Although the passage was large enough for two people to walk upright, there was actually nothing special inside. So soon, the two of them walked through every location inside the pyramid. And they didn't find anything valuable.

"These should be all the structures inside the pyramid, but why is there nothing here? Can you see any secret entrance with your perspective?"

"Not at the moment. Although the material of this pyramid is very special, it does not interfere with my ability to see through things. So far, all the places we have been to have solid walls behind them."

"For such a large pyramid, is only the top part useful? The lower two-thirds are solid?"

"Yes."

"Is this just an ordinary pyramid made of special materials? But that shouldn't be the case! The age of this pyramid is at least the same as the other pyramids we have seen. People at that time would not go to great lengths to build useless things. This place must have something we have missed."

"I think so too. Otherwise, apart from the people in the truck bed, where did the other people in this temporary camp go? Their vehicles are still parked at the edge of the camp. It doesn't look like they have left. Gloria, use your ability to release radiation pulses to search here."

"Row."

According to Han Zu, Gloria released a radiation pulse, and soon the pulse range covered the entire pyramid and the temporary camp outside. Everything was normal, the people in the truck outside remained the same, and there was no hidden secret entrance in all the locations scanned by the pulse.

"Nothing. But I always feel that we must have missed something."

"In that case, let's go out first and search the temporary camp outside to see if we can find any clues."

After leaving the pyramid, the two men searched the temporary camp outside. The camp seemed to have been looted and nothing was left.

"It's past the time for the locator to resume operation. Although I just released another radiation pulse, the previous few minutes should be enough for the locator to send out the signal. If someone really wants to look for them, they should come soon. We haven't found anything in the camp. Should we wait a while?"

"That's good. Maybe the people who came to this scientific expedition team have some information that they passed back before."

"What about those people in the truck? Should we take them back to the camp?"

"No, the camp was looted. It was probably done by roaming bandits. If we put those people back in the camp, it will definitely arouse suspicion. We just need to arrange it again. The situation in the camp was caused by these unconscious scientific expedition members. Because they encountered some inexplicable situation, they fled this temporary camp and were looted by bandits."

"Then what are we going to do?"

"Go and drive all the vehicles in the temporary camp away, but put a few members of the scientific expedition team on them first. Once you are out of the camp, open all the doors and put them in a position to escape from the car. Oh, and put some food, water, etc. in each car."

"There are still some large equipment in here that we haven't taken away. Do we need them?"

"No, we don't have time to worry about these things when we are running for our lives. Let's get started. We may not have much time."

"What about the truck?"

"Stay here while I knock it over."

Following Han Zu's instructions, the two men quickly got moving. According to Han Zu, the two men dispersed the nearly 20 scientific expedition team members on the truck into five vehicles, and then Han Zu and Gloria, two vehicles at a time, drove these vehicles in three times to a location two kilometers away from the camp, and then pretended to have encountered an inexplicable situation, causing these people to want to escape from the vehicles.

After doing all this, the two returned to the temporary camp. Han Zu overturned the truck, and Gloria used fire to disguise some traces of firefights in various places in the temporary camp.

"Okay, that should be enough. But how do we solve the problem of footprints?"

"It's okay. Look at the sky. Don't you think it's suddenly dark? It's noon now."

"sandstorm?"

As they were talking, wind suddenly blew around them. This hot wind mixed with sand was not comfortable when blowing on the body. Fortunately, although the sandstorm was still several kilometers away from here, the wind caused by the sandstorm had begun to bury the footprints left by Han Zu and Gloria.

"What do we do now?"

"Just find a place to hide and wait. It's easy to hide here because there's sand everywhere."

Hiding in the desert is a very simple matter. They just dug two holes in the sand dunes and Han Zu and Gloria hid in them. They didn't even need to bury themselves. The wind that gradually grew stronger due to the sandstorm in the distance helped them bury themselves.

"Psss~~"

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"It's been so long, and no one has come yet?"

"Wait a little longer. If no one shows up in half an hour, we'll go check inside the pyramid again. Use the pulse to search the area again."

"Still no... Wait, there is a convoy approaching here from the southwest!"

Han Zu and Gloria, who had been hiding under the gravel for an hour and a half, finally found someone approaching the temporary camp. As the sandstorm got closer, the temporary camp was shrouded in its shadow. At this time, the sandstorm was less than two kilometers away from the temporary camp. If the convoy in the distance did not speed up, it might arrive at the temporary camp together with the sandstorm. However, from the situation scanned by Gloria's pulse, the convoy did not seem to want to arrive with the sandstorm and had already increased its speed.

Soon, a steel convoy consisting of some heavy vehicles arrived at the temporary camp. As the hatches of the vehicles opened, more than 20 fully armed soldiers wearing modular power armor came into the camp. The others stayed on the armed vehicles.

"Hurry! Search the camp immediately!"

These soldiers are well-trained and are definitely not random brands. Although there are no obvious markings on their power armor, Gloria can almost confirm from their actions that these people are the armed forces of the Ferdinand family.

These soldiers quickly searched the camp and used various equipment on their power armor to determine a lot of information based on the remaining traces.

"Report, half of the scientific expedition team members, as well as some mercenaries, escaped from the camp using vehicles an hour and a half ago."

"Can you determine the direction?"

"The drone has been sent out, it should be soon..."

"found it!"

Using the drone terminals in their hands, the soldiers of the Ferdinand family quickly discovered the locations of the "escaped" members of the scientific expedition team.

"Go get a car and bring back the family members, and deal with the others on the spot."

"Yes!"

Under the commander's order, a heavy vehicle left the camp and headed in the direction where the expedition members had "escaped". They quickly found the location of the expedition members. They brought several of them onto the vehicle, searched the scene, and handled it efficiently and quickly. Then they immediately returned to the temporary camp.

The soldiers who remained in the temporary camp used various detection and scanning devices to scan the camp several times, but found nothing.

Gloria used radiation pulses to change the direction of the pulses so that they only acted on her own body. In this way, Gloria was not discovered by those devices.

Han Zu's method was much simpler. He directly transformed into soul-grabbing miasma and dispersed under the gravel to remain still. It was not easy to scan a cloud of mist buried under the gravel.

"Everything is normal in the camp. After the expedition team fled the camp, there should have been some roaming bandits, but they took away unimportant things, such as guns, ammunition, food and water. Our large equipment is still there. However, the protective field generator is missing, but the box is on the overturned truck."

"Report, the family members have been recovered, but their condition is not normal, and we have only found half of the expedition team members."

"Half? What's going on?"

"And the residual signal of the protective field generator can still be found, so the device should not have left the camp."

"That means they did find something."

The commander glanced at the pyramid next to him, and looked thoughtfully at the man-made entrance.

"Report, the family members are in a state that we cannot recover. We need to bring them back."

"Get a car to escort them back quickly. Where are the engineers?! Did they send back any video information before?"

"Yes! Here, but they seem to be disturbed, and I can't hear a word of what's on it."

"Can it be repaired?"

"No, the interference is too strong. But I think I found where the remaining half of the scientific expedition team went. In the other video information sent back, they entered the pyramid. The location of the last video should be the main tomb chamber."

"Signalman! Send the news back to the family. You, you, and you, take your team to rebuild the temporary camp. The sandstorm is coming. Be prepared for protection, John! Take your people to be on guard and keep an eye on our vehicles. The rest of you, follow me! Go in and take a look."

After giving the order, the commander led ten people into the pyramid. As the sandstorm got closer, the sky got darker, and the wind and sand became stronger. With these covers, Han Zu and Gloria quietly moved.

Out of understanding of the Ferdinand family, engineers and doctors have a high status in every team, so Han Zu and Gloria sneaked into the first tent built, the engineers and doctors. There were five people in this tent, three doctors and two engineers. The three doctors used the terminal to monitor the status of the team members in the camp. The two engineers were trying to repair some equipment that had problems.

"The one on the left."

Under Gloria's guidance, Han Zu targeted the chief engineer in the team and used the ability of the soul-grabbing miasma to secretly take away his terminal from under the noses of five people without anyone noticing.

Digging quickly and diving under the sand dunes, the two reunited and began to check the video information left in the terminal when the scientific expedition team encountered problems. Through careful observation of the video, they determined that the final location of the remaining half of the scientific expedition team members was indeed the main tomb chamber.

"Still no information. Let me check again."

“This seems to be able to move, right?”

Gloria watched the video message again. This time, before the message was interrupted, she heard someone whisper something. This might be the key.

"Can move? What can move? What do you think?"

"There should be some mechanism at the location of the main tomb chamber. But we didn't find it."

"Didn't you say that your clairvoyance didn't reveal anything? Could it be that you remembered it wrong?"

"Let me think..."

Han Zu thought about the previous situation and suddenly found a piece of information that was not important.

"I remember that there was a one-centimeter-deep groove under the sarcophagus in the main tomb chamber. I thought it was the sink of the sarcophagus. Now that I think about it, if they said there was something inside that could move, it would be the sarcophagus. After all, the walls and the ground in other places are solid."

"Now that you mention it, I seem to have scanned this place as well, but the distance is so small that there's no way to place a trap, right?"

"If you want to find out, you have to go down and take a look."

"!@!#@￥!"

At this moment, some noisy shouts came from above the gravel. The two men quickly rose up, exposed their eyes, and observed the situation outside.

"Doctor! Come here!!"

"What's wrong?!"

A soldier suddenly ran out from inside the pyramid and began to call for the medic loudly. It seemed that someone was injured.

"No, he could have used the communicator in his power armor to call for help, so why did he have to come out and shout himself?"

But Gloria found something unusual. This soldier didn't look like a rookie, but his behavior was not sophisticated at all.

"what happened?"

"in.."

"boom!!"

However, when a medic rushed to him, the soldier suddenly jumped up and grabbed the medic's neck with both hands. However, due to the existence of the power armor, the soldier did not cause any harm to the medic. And the soldier did not want to strangle him to death, but just held him tightly, making him unable to leave.

"what are you doing!!!"

"what happened?"

The two people who were fighting caused quite a commotion, and several other soldiers nearby quickly surrounded them.

"I don't know! He suddenly called for a doctor and then just wouldn't let go of me!"

"What's wrong with you?! Let go!"

“Sizzle…sizzle…”

"What's that sound... Not good! Hurry...!!!!"

"Woo hum~~~"

However, after several people surrounded him, the soldier who was holding the medic suddenly let go, and then a shadow that could be seen with the naked eye suddenly appeared on his body. This shadow exploded with a buzzing sound, affecting the soldiers who had surrounded him. Those soldiers suddenly became agitated. But at the same time, a module on their power armor suddenly started to operate automatically, injecting some milky white chemicals into their bodies. In a flash, those people fell to the ground neatly.

"what happened?!!"

"Don't get close! Contact the commander! See what happened to them!"

"Report! We can't contact the commander!"

"Damn it!"

"Stand on alert!"

The sudden change made the camp a mess. The sandstorm also arrived at the camp at this time. The yellow sand and the hot sandstorm tornado made the place even more depressing. Although the soldiers showed abnormal behavior and strange reactions, for safety reasons, no one else went up to see.

But with the cover of the sandstorm, Han Zu and Gloria came to the soldiers who fell to the ground and checked them.

"It's the same as the conditions of the scientific expedition team members. It seems that their abnormality is indeed caused by this milky white chemical. Is this what you think?"

"Yes, but it's a diluted version. It seems that Garcia is indeed related to the Ferdinand family."

"So what exactly is the effect of this medicine? Although it does look like a sedative, I always feel that it's not that simple."

"We'll talk about this potion later. We should go back inside the pyramid. Let's go, it seems someone is coming."

With the cover of the sandstorm, the two avoided the sight of others and quietly entered the pyramid again and came to the main tomb chamber, but strangely, there was no one inside and no signs of any battle.

"The location of this sarcophagus seems to have been moved?"

"See if there is any mechanism nearby. If not, I will just pull the sarcophagus out."

"it is good."