With a clear direction, the marching speed increased significantly.
Along the way, large footprints of giant beasts could be seen on the decomposed matter on the ground.
"We must quickly take down this Boundary Land and stop letting the creatures inside roam freely," Xiang Yinghua felt a wave of worry. Just from the size of these footprints, he could judge their threat level.
The Boundary Land had only recently ford, and not many creatures had landed on Earth through it yet.
In just fifteen minutes, the team reached a region with intense spatial fluctuations.
"Look, there’s a noticeable spatial distortion up ahead," the officer leading the team, acting as a guide, pointed to the valley ahead.
In the valley ahead, there were phenona defying physics; conical hills floated in the air as if lifted by an invisible hand. Around these conical hills, so scattered stone fragnts revolved in a pattern.
"Well, that’s sowhat good news—it suggests this Boundary Land is unclaid. asure the intensity," Xiang Yinghua commanded.
The leading officer took out a long-shaped device, pressed a few buttons, and imdiately so numbers started flickering.
"Spiritual Pressure is between 109~350 kilopascals, translating to a Spiritual Particles intensity of 3.3~3.5."
Xiang Yinghua looked at Special Service Group Six, "It’s about what the experts had calculated. It suggests the Spirit Realm Plane connected to this Boundary Land is a mid-level plane, and it’s at the top end of the mid-level. The larger force can’t enter; only you can do it."
"I can’t guarantee the mission’s completion, but we’ll try our best," Yuan Hall, representing Special Service Group Six, replied.
"I’m taking the wounded back. Try to keep the issued Spiritual Cara on at all tis; we’ll provide expert remote support as needed," Xiang Yinghua said.
He finally looked at Bai Pu and said, "I have great confidence in the Special Service Bureau acquiring Boundary Land access, mainly because of you, this champion. Do well; your competitors were once your defeated opponents."
"Instructor Xiang, don’t put pressure on my team mbers," Yuan Hall waved his hand repeatedly, "The situation at the Boundary Land isn’t clear, and it’s certainly not just Huaxia with overlapping spatial points. There could be foreign mid-level Awakened entering. Gangxin is the national college champion, not a world champion, don’t put such pressure on him."
Space isn’t absolutely flat, just "generally flat," akin to a hand splayed open.
The overlap of the Spirit Realm Plane and Earth’s reality will first superimpose on certain raised areas of the hand.
For instance, the area before them is one such overlap zone. Throughout Huaxia, only this spot was known.
However, due to untily intelligence transmission, other countries aren’t clear about the specifics, though such zones probably exist.
Mid-level Awakened talents from other countries will also enter the new Boundary Land, attempting to gain control there.
Once they take control of the Boundary Land and beco its first master, they can establish it as a subspace of Earth and set up spatial channels to bring it onto a controlled, normal track.
Xiang Yinghua chuckled, watching Bai Pu and the others step by step toward the area of spatial anomalies.
The closer Bai Pu and the others got to the spatial anomaly zone, the smaller their figures appeared to Xiang Yinghua and the soldiers.
This wasn’t actual shrinking in the true sense but a visual distortion due to asymtric spatial distances.
To Bai Pu and the others, it seed like re steps, but in conventional spatial terms on Earth, they’d traversed several, even dozens of kiloters!
The farther, the smaller they appeared.
When Bai Pu and the others touched the stone debris circling the outskirts of the spatial anomaly zone, they were already as small as dust.
In Bai Pu’s perception, they were "Shrinking Inches," and with every step, the "Floating Hills" and "Circling Stone Debris" before them grew significantly.
After a few steps, the Floating Hills were as large as mountains, and the circling stone debris seed like a cosmic asteroid belt.
With a slight flash of light, Bai Pu and the others vanished.
...
"Hello...? Ah, good, communication is normal."
Bai Pu adjusted the officially issued Spiritual Cara, then opened a virtual map to check the positions of his teammates.
The Spiritual Cara projected a pitch-black map, mostly covered in fog, with only the small area where Bai Pu stood revealing the nearby terrain: a swamp.
Bai Pu himself was the large green dot at the center of the map.
Blood Spider was to the north, Yuan Hall to the northwest.
Yuan Yue and You Bai were both to the east.
Together with Bai Pu, the distance between them was approximately one to two hundred kiloters.
Anvil was rather unfortunate, alone on the far west side, over four hundred kiloters away.
On the public chat channel, the voice of Yuan Hall sounded:
"Follow the proximity principle, pair up to rendezvous. Although this is a Boundary Land, there are no exit rules established yet, so you must use compulsory teleportation tools to leave, which is very risky. Better be cautious."
"Who should I et up with?" Anvil asked innocently.
"Be careful for the mont, explore the surrounding map, and act as a humanoid beacon for us," Yuan Yue’s playful voice chid in, "Once we’re all grouped, we’ll co to you."
Bai Pu wasn’t worried about leaving as this was still part of the real world, so he could use the [Duke’s Badge of the Fu Lei Clan] to teleport to the Flesh and Blood Plague world.
But doing so would essentially forfeit the advantage to seize Boundary Land access, equaling defeat. Bai Pu definitely didn’t want to resort to that unless absolutely necessary.
Bai Pu kept the Spiritual Cara overhead, filming from an overhead perspective.
He first took a look around the surroundings.
The swamp wasn’t very deep, and the terrain was uneven with many raised highlands willing to walk on.
Of course, the pools of "dead water" were of unknown depth. Judging by the slightly deep color of that "dead water," Bai Pu thought stepping into it wasn’t a good idea.
"The oxygen content here is a bit high."
Bai Pu slowed his breathing.
Were he an ordinary person, they would risk oxygen intoxication, but the physique of an Awakened didn’t need to worry about the atmospheric differences from Earth’s minor eccentricities.
There was a faint white fog above the swamp, and visibility wasn’t very high.
Bai Pu moved eastward, following the raised solid ground. Overhead, his Spiritual Cara continued working, continuously filming the surrounding environnt and incorporating it into the virtual map, increasing the area Bai Pu had "explored."
Splash!
Muddy water splattered as a bloated creature suddenly crawled out of a deep pool.
This creature wasn’t human-like, composed entirely of muddy stinking water, with its head positioned in its chest cavity, where two faint red lights could be seen, possibly as "eyes."
As soon as the mud creature appeared, it charged growling towards Bai Pu!
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