"This place actually looks quite peaceful, it's just a bit windy."
Lin Ye sat at the top of the building, his feet dangling in the air, looking down at the entire city.
"Don't we need to look for anything abnormal?"
Logan stood to the side and slightly behind Lin Ye, his face deathly pale.
"I'm looking right now."
Lin Ye observed and morized the city's structure. In his view, there was so kind of connection between all things. Since this city was judged as an extre environnt by the Naless Armor Wreckage, there must be so clues to be found within the city's layout.
"...Are you okay like that?"
Due to the ntal shock, Logan was feeling a bit dizzy right now. He was afraid Lin Ye, wearing that armor that looked incredibly heavy, would fall from the highest point of this city.
This place was over a hundred ters from the ground. Under normal circumstances, of course it wouldn't be a problem, but without using extraordinary powers, falling would an certain death.
"It's fine. I used to think I was afraid of heights too, but actually, if you stand at a high place and look for a while, you get used to it."
Lin Ye stood up and walked along the edge of the rooftop. This was just a very ordinary high-rise building, but at this mont, it gave him the illusion of walking on the edge of the Abyss.
"Found anything?"
Logan hadn't noticed anything. What he feared wasn't the height, nor the consequences of falling, but the act of falling itself.
"Yeah, this city is very abnormal."
Lin Ye leaned the upper half of his body out beyond the edge of the floor. A certain strange sensation confird his suspicion.
"Where is it abnormal? I can't see anything wrong at all?"
Logan asked, puzzled.
"Everywhere is abnormal. All these things that look normal are completely abnormal. You think they are normal, yet you are suppressed to the point where you can't even use extraordinary powers. There's only one reason that can explain this: compared to them, you are the mundane one.
As long as they are in a 'normal' state, you can only remain normal."
Lin Ye looked up at the sky. The location of the treasure was right above them, but in this city where extraordinary powers couldn't be used, trying to get up there was as difficult as ascending to the heavens.
This was truly as difficult as ascending to the heavens.
"Uh, is there sothing up there?"
Logan also looked up at that azure blue sky, as if he hadn't heard what Lin Ye said. There wasn't a single cloud up there, and the source of the light couldn't be seen either.
"If we can't get out from the surroundings, then the exit should be above."
Lin Ye took Logan back to the clinic. The others had mostly returned, only the Captain and his teammate hadn't co back yet.
"The outside is a wasteland. I wanted to go out and take a look, but as soon as I stepped outside the city limits, I was teleported back into the city. The area outside the city seems sowhat similar to that wilderness from before.
I don't recomnd continuing to explore outside the city, because I was teleported above a building. If I wasn't quite agile, I might have been killed by the fall."
One of the researchers sent to check the situation outside spoke up.
The others' situations were similar. Apart from that, no one had found anything abnormal, and no one had found a way to leave.
"I think the exit should be in the sky. Does anyone here know how to build an aircraft?"
Lin Ye shared his speculation. He had never worked on anything related to flight before, so he had almost no knowledge in this area.
"It's very difficult. I have indeed studied this kind of knowledge, but many of the necessary equipnt isn't available here, and materials are the biggest problem... We could make a hot air balloon, but the altitude might be insufficient, and the flexibility would be very poor."
Dr. Wells was quite reliable, but sotis, being reliable alone wasn't enough.
At that mont, the Captain also returned to the clinic. His expression was excited, clearly having discovered so useful information.
"I found the mbers of the previous squad. They are locked up in an asylum. Their condition is sowhat off. To prevent any accidents, I didn't act rashly."
The Captain said sowhat excitedly.
"Did you find the item? Are those two people there as well?"
Dr. Wells imdiately asked.
"Those two people and the item are not there, but I found so traces they left behind."
The Captain was already quite satisfied with this level of harvest.
Coming to an abnormal area like this to find people was always a matter heavily dependent on luck.
"Then let's go. I hope they found a way to leave this place... otherwise, we'll have to start building an aircraft from scratch."
Dr. Wells really didn't want the situation to develop in that direction, because he simply wouldn't live that long.
Everyone drove to the asylum located in the western suburbs of the city. The asylum only had orderlies, doctors, and the Director, totaling less than ten people, so they quickly gained control of the entire asylum.
Everyone arrived at the corridor where the wards were located. The mbers of the previous exploration squad were locked up inside these wards.
"...They look like genuine lunatics."
"Is this the result of staying here for a long ti? Then I'd rather commit suicide while still lucid."
"I've seen that person before. He was a genius far more outstanding than , but now he's beco an idiot who only knows how to giggle foolishly."
...
Looking at those patients, the surrounding researchers uttered sowhat despairing voices, because this might very well be their future selves.
At that mont, an elderly patient suddenly began shouting loudly and pounding forcefully on the door of his room.
"He's having another episode. He has an episode precisely at this ti every day, as if he's faking it. Can I give him a sedative injection?"
The doctor who was being restrained nearby spoke up.
"Wait! Let him out!"
"Hold on!"
Dr. Wells and Lin Ye spoke simultaneously.
The two exchanged a glance. The Captain stepped forward, opened the ward door, and removed the restraints on the old man.
The old man stumbled out of the ward, then began sprinting wildly down the corridor. His body was no different from a normal old man's, yet now he was running at a young man's speed. This was a state that surpassed biological instinct.
Lin Ye and the others followed behind the old man. The old man ran into the asylum's courtyard and ca to a stop in the garden.
He thrust his hands into the soil, digging forcefully at the ground.
A researcher pulled the old man aside. The Captain picked up a shovel leaning against the wall and began digging forcefully at the ground. His efficiency was high, quickly digging through the soil to reveal a tal plate hidden beneath.
This was an entrance leading underground.
Lin Ye lifted the tal plate and was the first to enter the several-ter-high, slanted downward underground passageway. He was wearing the Naless Armor Wreckage; ordinary attacks couldn't hurt him at all.
The underground passageway wasn't long, less than twenty ters. At the end of the passageway was a tal door. Lin Ye pushed the door open. Inside was a very spacious underground space.
"This seems to be so kind of air defense facility."
The Captain followed Lin Ye into the underground space. He looked around in surprise; this underground space was completely out of place with this city.
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