Kunlun Mountain.

In this desert steppe, which has been deserted for thousands of years, there should not be any man-made buildings, but there is a small base on it that has been blown to dust by the wind and sand.

Considering the cost of airlifting these building materials to the desert steppe, it can be described as an extremely astonishing speed, and the manpower and material resources that need to be mobilized in a short period of time are probably not affordable by any non-governmental organization, even if it is impossible for the Red Leaf Academy.

Many young and middle-aged men dressed in black went in and out of the base with serious faces, their division of labor was extremely clear, they didn't talk to each other too much, they looked well-trained, and judging from their vigorous and resolute style, it didn't seem to be an ordinary identity, except for the lack of epaulettes, the style of this black dress almost dyed the military uniform black.

In the open space outside the base, two military helicopters are parked, the kind with live ammunition attached.

As soon as the small refueling trucks were withdrawn, the propellers of the two helicopters began to spin to warm up for the upcoming flight.

But make no mistake, the quickest way to get here from the nearest city with an airport is not by helicopter.

The head of the academy hung up the phone with Aurora, she didn't know why she was saying so much, maybe it was human instinct when facing great danger, and she didn't want to let something be buried in her heart forever.

"Sir, it's time to get there!"

A man also dressed in black said to the headmaster.

"Ready. ”

The head of the house nodded to the other teachers, who all wore goggles.

Boom –

The cabin door was pulled open, and the strong wind from high altitude poured into the cabin in one go, and anything that wasn't fixed was blown from side to side.

The dean and several teachers lined up and walked along the safety rope to the door of the cabin in turn, and the dean walked in the front.

Completely different from the students' impression of the dean in the professional suit, the dean at this time was dressed in a neat gray suit, except for the different colors, the style was very close to the men's black clothes - of course, the style could not be exactly the same, because the gray clothes were designed for the female figure.

The head of the academy gave a thumbs up with his left hand, and the man in black unfastened the safety buckle for her, and then she jumped!

The cold and dry wind was blowing, and the wind was mixed with sand, and it was difficult to even open your eyes if you didn't wear goggles.

Behind the dean, several other teachers who were also dressed in gray jumped one after another, and when they stood at the door of the cabin, no one hesitated, no one was afraid, because this was not their first time skydiving.

Only one teacher was slightly nervous, carrying a camouflage-painted cylindrical object on her chest in addition to a parachute.

It is not the first time that Wang Yefei has parachuted, but it is the first time she has participated in such an operation, she was previously excluded from such operations because she did not have long-range attack means, and now she can finally get closer to Li Muqin in a sense.

The head of the academy retracted his body, and his head and feet fell almost vertically like an awl.

The small base on the ground is directly below, and there is a circular area painted red on the side of the base, with a black cross painted in the middle, and the lights flickering on and off all around, which is very eye-catching even at night, and that is the intended landing site for the skydive.

After the few of them had completed their jump, the cabin door closed, and the transport plane did not stop, turning a corner and returning the way it came.

The head of the academy raised his left wrist to glance at the altimeter, and made a predetermined gesture, she and several teachers pulled their parachutes at the same time, their bodies were violently pulled by the traction, the landing speed was greatly slowed, and a few umbrella flowers floated in the air.

They manipulated their parachutes and tried to resist the strong winds in the desert steppe, landing as far as possible in the red circle.

That's right, the quickest way to get here from the nearest airport is not by helicopter, but by transport plane and parachuting, which is much faster and has a longer range than a helicopter.

It didn't take long for the head of the academy to land first, and the moment she landed, she bent her knees and rolled on the ground, unloading the impact and avoiding spraining her ankle.

As soon as she landed, they rushed over, took the parachute bag she had unloaded, and immediately dragged the useless parachute away from the scene, so as not to affect the landing of the teachers behind.

"Headmaster!"

Lu Weijing walked over quickly, she was not wearing a white coat today, wearing a white coat in the strong desert wind would only get in the way, but wearing the same gray clothes as the head of the academy, and there was no usual smile on her face.

"Sorry, I'm late, how's it going?"

"It sucks. Lu Weijing said.

The head of the academy sank, and walked with Lu Weijing to the interior of the small base, and the other teachers who landed one after another also followed them.

Lu Weijing noticed that Wang Yefei, who participated in this kind of operation for the first time, was a little nervous, and patted the latter's shoulder comfortingly, and the latter tried to squeeze out a smile.

At the edge of the base, men in black are collecting local materials, in groups of two, one person is holding the sack, and the other person uses a shovel to scoop up sand, clods and sand and fill the sack, and when the bag is full, the person holding the sack will tie the sack, carry it on his shoulder, trot a few steps quickly, and stack the sack in the designated place, while the person who shoveled the sand just now took this opportunity to take a breath.

Around the base, sandbags are built to chest height, wrapping the base in a Ω shape, leaving only one opening to enter and exit.

In addition to being used as a fortification, the biggest use of sandbags at present is to prevent wind, as long as the initial formation, the wind inside the base is greatly reduced.

Lu Weijing arrived in the previous batch, in fact, only two hours earlier than the head of the college, after all, the head of the house can't just leave, he must arrange the things that the school should arrange.

In addition, Lu Weijing's purpose was to treat the injured person's injuries, but after she arrived, she found that she had no effect after she came, and no one needed her to treat her injuries. 000 Literature

Lu Weijing led the head of the house and several other teachers through the Ω-shaped entrance, entered the base, pushed open the door of a room, and she held the door to prevent the door from being blown shut by the wind, and waited for the head of the house and other teachers to enter, and then she closed the door.

The door was open for only a few seconds, and the large military battle map pinned to the blackboard with thumbtacks was blown and rattled until the door was closed.

But opening the door also has the advantage of blowing the heavy smell of smoke in the room without a trace.

There were several middle-aged men dressed in black in the room, staring at the battle map with their eyebrows locked, and a few of them had not finished smoking the cigarettes between their fingers, when they saw the head of the academy come in, and politely threw the cigarette butts on the ground and stepped on them.

The men knew the dean, but the dean didn't know them, and there was no need to know them.

"You may be seated. ”

The head of the house and the teachers sat down across from the men in black.

"We are here, the target location is here. ”

A man points to a location on the map and then moves to another location, he is not the highest ranking male indoors, and can only be counted as a middle and lower rank indoors.

The map is marked with dense contour lines that accurately depict the topography of this section of the Kunlun Mountains.

The young men who shovel sand and build sandbags outside are very strong, but they have to take a breath after working for a while, because this is a plateau area with an average altitude of more than 3,000 meters.

The map shows two red circles, one large and one small, the smaller being the base here, and a striking red arrow pointing to the large red circle.

"Is the situation getting worse?" asked the dean.

"Yes. The black-clothed man in charge of introducing the situation frowned and nodded heavily, "The scale of this 'passage' is unprecedentedly huge, and it shows a strange breathing effect, and the reconnaissance team we went to investigate ...... None of them came back. ”

"Breathing effect?" the head of the academy was stunned, even if it was the first time she had heard the term.

"Yes, that's the name we came up with, because there is nothing more vivid than this name. "To put it simply, the scale of the channel is like breathing, sometimes contracting, sometimes expanding, and we don't have a pattern of contraction and expansion at the moment." ”

The head of the house frowned.

"It's the breathing effect that causes the Scout's ...... Lost contact. He wanted to use the word "annihilation", but as long as the bodies were not identified with their own eyes, there was still a theoretical possibility that his comrades would survive.

"At first, we thought the 'channel' was so big. He drew another small circle inside the large red circle, "It's not small, but it's not the biggest we've ever seen, and we think we can handle it, so we sent an elite reconnaissance team to check on the situation." ”

And then ...... The breathing effect suddenly appeared, and the size of the 'Passage' expanded rapidly, and the reconnaissance team ...... Contact was lost. He said bitterly.

"We have never heard of, let alone encountered, a 'passage' that will expand after it appears, and we urgently retreated the temporary headquarters ten kilometers to where we are standing now. He continued, "However, about 1 hour and 15 minutes after the 'channel' expanded, the 'channel' contracted rapidly to a scale similar to that of the beginning. ”

Over the next five hours, this breathing effect recurred twice, irregularly both in frequency and in dilated distances, the second being greater than the first, and the third being smaller than the first...... In order to avoid more unnecessary casualties, we did not send any more reconnaissance teams over. ”

The head of the house nodded, staring at the red circle on the map in deep thought, while several teachers exchanged words with each other.

She didn't ask why she didn't send drones or other equipment to the scene to reconnoitre, because every "channel" was accompanied by a strong magnetic field, and drones couldn't get close enough.

"This 'passage' is large-scale, long-lasting, and accompanied by an unprecedented breathing effect, and through satellite observation, there is no sign of disappearing until now, so we can only ask your school for help. The black-clothed man, the highest ranking man in the room, finally spoke, with a little unwillingness in his expression.

"You don't have to be polite about what you do, it's about the fate of all mankind, and we owe it to our best to do it. The dean said, standing up and winking at the teachers.

All the teachers stood up.

"Headmaster, let me remind you that the situation of the 'passage' this time is unknown due to the inability to get close to reconnaissance, and we are not sure if any creatures have emerged from the passage, nor are we sure about the type and ability of the creatures. The man who briefed him earlier added.

"Understood, thanks, we'll get over here. ”

The head of the academy was about to lead the teachers out of the house and to the front line, when the highest-ranking man raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and said: "Wait another five minutes, the helicopter is not suitable to take off now, and the long-range fire coverage is about to arrive." ”

Before he finished speaking, in the direction of the horizon, there was a sudden sound of rolling thunder in the valley in the distance, but unlike the thunder in nature, this time the thunder had no intervals, and it kept rumbling.

The head of the house and a few teachers looked through the window, and saw that the valley in the distance was covered in raging firelight, like the brilliant fireworks over Victoria Harbour on New Year's Day, when hundreds of rockets exploded in a thunderous manner.

These rockets were launched from hundreds of kilometers away, and each rocket hit the ground at a speed several times the speed of sound, which is simply not visible to the naked eye.

It's a rain of devastating fire that can move anyone, and compared to Aurora's hail rain, it's like a child's play.

However, since it is not clear what is happening at the scene, such a rain of fire is spectacular, but in fact it is extremely inefficient, and it is completely covered by carpet fire by numerical superiority, although the place where the rain of fire falls is enough to destroy any living thing on the earth, but such a rain of fire cannot be launched forever, right?

God knows how many hours, or even days, will last this time, maybe nothing will appear from the "channel" when the fire rain falls, but when the fire rain stops, something will appear, what can you do?

Every time a rain of fire falls, it means that at least tens of millions of yuan of funds are lost, and how can it continue to burn money for several hours like this? Even if you don't care about money, it is impossible to mobilize enough ammunition to continue firing for several hours.

Nothing will always appear in the "passage", sometimes the "passage" will appear and then disappear for several hours, during which nothing will appear from inside, but once something appears, it will be quite tricky, and it is a monster from another world that the students usually deal with is simply incomparable.

Aurora's hail rain is far inferior to the fire rain in terms of momentum, but Aurora can get close enough to the "passage" to lock on to the target by visually.

Of course, the head of the house and the other teachers can also go to distances that ordinary people can't reach, because they are all transcendent.