"Thank you! -- Hurry back, everyone. ”

More than twenty kilometers away from the "dead city", almost to the limit distance that ordinary people can approach, Long Yun and Ivan Zakharov and others waved goodbye, he climbed into the wide MAZ-543 off-road truck, and began the uncertain journey to explore the secrets alone.

With the roar of the engine all the way forward, from the rearview mirror, the sand-yellow ZIL truck and the figure standing next to the car are moving away, gradually turning into a blur on the horizon; The temperature of the desert Gobi under the noon sun is rising rapidly, and the gravel layer close to the surface is even a little hot, but the cold wind is still blowing, and the vision is covered with a very light layer of dim yellow, but it is not like the desert area that will raise dust storms in the sky.

With the experience of the previous expedition, it was not difficult to approach the "dead city" in a vehicle in itself.

After saying goodbye to Zakharov and his party, as in the previous expedition, following the direction of consciousness sensing without worrying about getting lost, Long Yun soon discovered the first outline of the building that appeared on the distant horizon.

As the vehicle continued to move forward, crossing a gentle shallow slope that looked quite familiar, the open and panoramic view of the "Rome" base was once again presented in front of the explorers, but it was different from the last time when he stopped and thought about it, now that he had a rough idea of the situation in the base, and it was clear that the situation could not change in a short period of time, Long Yun did not reduce the accelerator under his feet, held the steering wheel steadily, and drove straight straight in the direction of the "dead city" all the way.

Now that he had made up his mind to go deeper into the "Rome" base to investigate, driven by fatal curiosity and a premonition of fate, he would not waste time on some trivial matters now.

I had a lot of thoughts and doubts before I left. Wait until you really embark on a solo adventure. Long Yun's actions were very decisive. He knew very well that now he had to rely on himself to make decisions and deal with it, just like the last experience, once he entered the area around the "dead city" shrouded in mysterious power, he could not count on any assistance from the outside world.

Driving close to the sleeping abandoned base, entering the deserted city from the fork in the road on the outskirts of the small town, Long Yun looked left and right along the way, and many scenes around him were quite familiar to him.

Sure enough, this "dead city" with no one in sight. It's like time has completely forgotten it.

After a lapse of two months, stepping into this absolute forbidden area for ordinary people again, the roar of the engine of the off-road truck reflected and echoed between the dilapidated buildings, which made Long Yun unconsciously feel a little emotional; In this secret base in the heart of the desert, where not even ordinary birds and animals can be seen, since the tragedy, I am afraid that it has been in complete silence, except for the sound of weathered buildings and falling apart, there will be no other sound.

Looking along the road to both sides, you can see the collapsed walls and houses and the dilapidated buildings with strict weathering, and feel the ups and downs on the road. Long Yun couldn't help but think of the words of his old friend Vladimir Pugin on the eve of departure. Then he began to think. If the terrifying power that envelops this abandoned base persists, then it will be impossible for humans to approach this place, and in a hundred, a thousand years, or even ten thousand years, even in the heart of Central Asia, where precipitation is scarce and the climate is dry, will this "dead city" still be doomed, eroded by the forces of nature into an unrecognizable "ruins of civilization"?

The impression of a secret base that seems to be silent but is slowly dying is probably quite correct.

As for the "Dead City", the name even sounds a little creepy, but if you think about it now, isn't it the real situation of the "Rome" base......

While thinking about it, he drove through the dusty base road, and the scenes that he vaguely remembered in his sight kept appearing, making Long Yun, who was advancing against the rough map, more certain that he was approaching the core area of the "Rome" base along a more reasonable shortcut; Of course, at this time, even if there is no map, the huge building complex surrounded by a large area of high walls, the emitting mental induction is also sending out a kind of summoning, at such a close distance, Long Yun does not need to deliberately feel, he can be as sure as he feels the sun shining on his body, where the indescribable fluctuation of thoughts comes from.

Closer, closer.

Driving the MAZ-543 to another street corner, he intuitively believed that the core area of the base was already very close, but Long Yun did not rush to step on the accelerator all the way and drive to the heavy gate that he had visited once, but cautiously stopped the car on the side of the street.

Flipping the switch to turn off the engine, he stayed in the cab at first, carefully scanning the surroundings with his conscious snooping technique, and after making sure that there was no one else around, he jumped out of the car door, slung the AK-74 assault rifle on his shoulder, and carried a light acetylene lamp; In a place like the "dead city", of course, there was no need to lock the car, so he strode around the corner of the street and walked towards the high-walled area hundreds of meters away in the cold wind.

The target area was in front of him, but he chose to get out of the car and walk, Long Yun's behavior seemed a little strange, but in fact, he was worried about a similar threat as the last time.

The fact that he hurriedly entered the "Dead City" last time and encountered a mysterious American pilot at the foot of the "Black Wall", and later broke out in a confrontation and chase battle, reminded Long Yun that although the "Dead City" was shrouded by mysterious forces and was absolutely inaccessible to ordinary people, just like the guy he met before, he could not completely conclude now that he was the only one in the abandoned "Rome" base at this time.

"There are other people in the 'dead city'", the probability of such a situation is almost zero, but it is still a great threat.

Judging from the experience of entering the "dead city" last time, in the outer area of the base, consciousness snooping can still play a role, allowing Long Yun to detect other people nearby; However, once he approaches the "black wall", or the core area of mysterious induction, this ability becomes more and more sluggish, so if he drives the roaring off-road truck all the way to kill, it is conceivable that once he is discovered by other superpowers who have entered the "dead city", this kind of situation is extremely dangerous.

Carrying out this secret mission alone, without any backup, the slightest mistake can be fatal, and Long Yun naturally needs to raise his spirit to deal with it.

Under the guidance of this thought, he slowly approached the side of the high-walled area he had seen before, and found the zigzag passage that he had entered the area inside the wall last time, and spent more than an hour roughly searching the huge area inside the thick high wall, except for the dilapidated scene that had been sealed for a long time, and a few dried corpses in terrifying condition, he found nothing, which was a temporary relief.

Raising my hand and looking at my watch, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

According to the original plan, if he was to start the "through the wall" operation today, he would have to move quickly.

After hurriedly turning around the core area of the base, making sure that there was no one else around, this result was actually expected, Long Yun temporarily relaxed, he trotted all the way back to the car, parked the MAZ-543 next to the entrance to the walkway through the wall, and then climbed into the back of the car to eat, and began to plan to carry the equipment down one by one.

In order to transport all the tools to the scene, there is still a long way to go from the entrance of the corridor through the high wall to the "black wall", the main object of this operation. However, now that time is pressing, every moment in the "dead city" is full of unknown variables, Long Yun doesn't have time to study how to open the huge iron gate with the high wall, and with this time to crack, he might as well devote more time to solving the "black wall".

After the infiltration just now, and having surveyed an easy route, Long Yun began to run between the truck and the foot of the "black wall", carrying a light diesel engine, a fuel tank, and some tools through the interior of the dusty building, into the largest building in the area, through the foyer and the long dusty corridor; While transporting supplies back and forth, he also took a few glances around him to assess the possibility of spending the night in the building, and then decided that it would be better to be in a heated cab.

Well, unlike the last time I came, even Moscow is already snowing, and the deserts in the hinterland of Central Asia, how much the temperature can drop at night, this thing is not easy to be careless at all.

Carrying things back and forth several times, assembling a small diesel engine on the spot, things were basically ready, standing quietly in the dimly lit and empty huge building, his eyes fell on the rough texture in front of him, but the scale was extremely broad before the "black wall", Long Yun was stunned for a while, in fact, he was thinking about whether various countermeasures were feasible, and then he began to solve the problem of this wall.

I can't say, looking at the appearance of this wall, if tricks such as picking locks don't work, you can only try violent demolition.

Approaching the "black wall" with the necessary tools and acetylene gas lamps, Long Yun clearly felt the familiar fluctuations of consciousness before he could touch the airlock, almost exactly the same as the last time he came; But to say that there is no difference at all, this is not quite right, he pondered the spot for a moment, and he can't tell where the difference is.

If you insist on describing it, it should be said that the intensity of his thoughts has not changed this time, only the form is a little different, but he really can't describe the specific difference.

With an extremely strong curiosity and a little inexplicable worry, Long Yun slowly came to the airlock door that he had groped for last time, and the first gate he had seen before was here; With the bright acetylene lamp, this time Long Yun no longer needed to grope with his hands, after he set up a lamp stand, he came to the airlock, and carefully looked at the gate body in front of him, which looked rather rough and obviously extremely heavy. (To be continued......)