Trafford's Trading Club Chapter 1102: Chapter 146: Size

Chapter 1102: Chapter 146: Size

After Captain Ling Feng and others appeared, about 23 hours later, the passage outside the granary opened again. A Taoist, looking utterly desolate, walked out with a face full of terror.

The researchers here quickly gathered, racing against time to study this passage—under the near-roaring mand of Dr. Zhao.

Interestingly, the duration of the passage was less than three seconds—and it was one-way.

But the researchers of the Bureau did not get discouraged because where there is one, there is two, naturally there will be three, and perhaps the next opening would e soon.

Indeed, just as they imagined, another opening occurred six hours later. This time, a Chicken Demon named Dafi came out.

The researchers swarmed again… this scared the just-escaped Chicken Demon Dafi quite a lot. If not for seeing many familiar faces, it would have thought it had fallen into danger once again.

Based on Captain Ling Feng and others’ descriptions, Dr. Zhao speculated that the time flow rate inside the passage to the Penglai Treasury was different from the normal world, roughly estimated to be between 260 to 275 times.

Then Yan Xiaoxi led his team over, and from the mouths of the Taoist or the monster that came out, they slowly pieced together the events that happened in the Penglai Treasury.

They already knew that Daoist Bai Jie was striving to rescue the surviving Dao Monsters inside the treasury, which indeed was quite an encouraging piece of news.

As for the Dao Monsters who escaped, including the Bureau investigators like Captain Ling Feng and his party, they gradually understood what had happened in the outside world during their ‘disappearance’ period.

However, the passage was one-way, so even if people outside were worried about the happenings in the Penglai Treasury, they couldn’t make any effective rescue—except to leave it to the institute to study the principle of this passage. These Dao Monsters who escaped the treasury soon joined the action against the Tianxin Seventy-First Generation.

In the foggy region, it’s hard to maintain effective real-time munication, and actions are hugely restricted, so Yan Xiaoxi made a decision—to airdrop to three positions where the sixth Jade Dragon Pillar might appear, which had already been calculated.

The fog cover wouldn’t change the terrain, and these fog covers clearly didn’t reach high altitudes—satellites could locate these three positions.

The operation was temporarily set for the evening of the day when the third passage opened, which was after the Chicken Demon Dafi came out, at exactly eight o’clock.

…

The operation this time was divided into three groups.

In order to balance the bined strength among the three groups as much as possible, the Bureau and the Dao Monsters, from three parties, almost mixed together—and this time they took the elite route, with each group having no more than ten people.

As for a large number of Bureau investigators, they were dispatched to the foggy region for rescue—rescuing those ordinary people trapped in the fog.

This country could not abandon ordinary people—or rather, the safety of ordinary citizens is what this country values most.

In fact, rescue operations have always been ongoing; it’s just that in such a harsh fog-covered environment, the role of ordinary soldiers is quite limited—over one hundred kilometers of fog range, without the help of transportation, relying solely on manpower for search, the rescue team itself faces great danger.

Race against time.

At exactly eight o’clock in the evening, under the pitch-black night sky, three military aircraft reached the sky above the foggy area and quickly dispersed—there’s no need to calculate the drop point for this airdrop operation’s members.

These are strong individuals capable of vertical parachuting without a parachute and surviving just fine.

“These are special shock grenades. Whoever discovers something first, throw it into the sky, and we will arrive at the first moment.”

This was Yan Xiaoxi’s last moment of real-time munication with the action squad members before landing in the foggy area.

…

Time quickly jumped to two days after the airdrop.

Yan Xiaoxi and others had not e out of the foggy region, but they did receive a message by flying crane from Daoist Master Sumu Bai—in the foggy area where electronic devices fail, Taoist munication methods were useful, just not as efficient.

According to the message from Daoist Master Sumu Bai, the three teams have successfully landed at the predetermined locations, but no enemies have been found yet.

Not long after, the passage opened again, and this time walking out from it was the Ming Tus Mountain, the elder of the Black Tortoise Clan, and True Person Huanyang, the Vice Chairman of the Taoist Association, two senior figures among the Dao Monsters, further boosting morale—though the manner in which True Person Huanyang and Ming Tus Mountain seemed somewhat inelegant, as if kicked out.

Ming Tus Mountain’s giant turtle shell enabled it to sneak up in the earth, which quickly became useful in the foggy area—after ing out, this surviving team from the Penglai Treasury, after a quick rest, immediately joined the ongoing operation.

However, there was a small incident among them, which was that Yan Liu, one of the Vermilion Bird Clan members rescued from the Raxia in the treasury by Ming Tus Mountain, disappeared.

Yan Liu remained in a a, placed in a tent after ing out… with no one guarding. The researchers were not medical staff, so naturally, they didn’t watch constantly, and everyone was worried about the foggy situation, naturally neglecting a temporarily unconscious demon clan member.

Besides, no one thought Yan Liu would vanish after waking up.

But given the severe situation, Yan Liu’s disappearance had to be temporarily set aside—because, at this moment, due to the continuous fermentation of the Mount Tai fog incident, chaos had indeed erupted outside.

Thanks to the internet, rumors fly everywhere, and even such a vast entity as the country seemingly has no better solution at the moment…

As everyone focused their attention on the foggy area, Dr. Zhao, waiting in vain for the passage to open, retreated back to the tent, studying the items the Bureau investigators had brought out of the Penglai Treasury when the magical passage opened again.

Only this time, the opening was shorter than any other, almost in the blink of an eye, with a black shadow shooting out at lightning speed, swiftly crossing the fields outside the granary and landing on the nearby highway.

The nearby instruments only had time to register a blip, and the dozing researchers were startled awake by a rapid alarm, but by then nothing could be seen.

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“What Is Love”

In the old Santana, the CD player was still in use—a virtually antique vehicle in this era… but there was no choice, it was the best rental car Ren Ziling could find, and it was awfully expensive too.

In the car, Ren Ziling sat in the driver’s seat, and the three of them nodded their heads along with the music from the CD player.

“Why are we nodding our heads?” Lizi asked curiously at the moment.

“I don’t know either… it just happened naturally.” Ren Ziling paused, giving a shiver, then stopped and turned off the music—this music was toxic.

On the road, there were very few vehicles. Driving along, there were road closure signs everywhere—Ren Ziling had driven around with almost half a tank of gasoline and found nothing useful.

It’s been three days since we arrived at this place, and the dense fog is getting closer. Before long, we’ll probably be forced to leave, right?

Actually, if the coverage wasn’t so vast and difficult to handle, there probably wouldn’t have been any space for these news media activities… Yet, even so, traveling like this still carries a certain level of risk, right?

Just yesterday, several reporters sneaked into the restricted area and were reportedly caught by the military… and then there was no follow-up.

Of course, because Daitown has relatively fewer people, most of those who came are local police officers; the military hasn’t been seen for the time being.

Without Officer Ma here to cover for her, Ren Ziling was extremely cautious, almost not daring to do anything illegal—of course, for those in the journalism industry, not taking risks equates to not obtaining first-hand information.

In these few days, apart from taking a few photos of the dense fog and interviewing local residents, there hasn’t been much useful material… You can’t just imagine fantastically and say there are cultivators undergoing tribulations in this fog, right?

“Look, what is that!”

Just as Ren Ziling was planning to drive (expensive fuel) back, Akiko suddenly pointed ahead through the windshield.

They saw a black shadow suddenly rushing down onto the small road they were on!

Emergency brake!

At first glance, it seemed to be a human figure, rolling several meters on the road. Ren Ziling immediately unbuckled her seatbelt, dashed out of the car, and ran up to this human figure.

“Sir, are you alright?”

Ren Ziling was intending to check, but a foul stench interrupted her steps. Lizi and Akiko simultaneously came beside Ren Ziling.

The three of them stared at each other, feeling pletely bewildered—this man reeking of odor not only had a severed arm, but a hefty tree branch ran through his belt at the back. He was lying on the ground, motionless.

Ren Ziling furrowed her brow, quickly pulled out her phone, “Hello, police? I’m here on GT231 National Road, found a atose man, can you send someone over? What? Too busy, wait a bit? Hello… hello? Damn it…”

“How about it?” Lizi blinked but kept staring at this smelly, armless man.

Ren Ziling shook her head, “They said they’re too busy. If he’s not dead, shall we handle him first?”

“Sister Ren, this person is unknown, could there be danger?” Akiko now seemed a bit nervous.

“Let’s take a look at him first.” Ren Ziling furrowed her brow, then reached out to feel the wrist of the armless man and looked around, “He has a pulse, let’s move him to the roadside first.”

However, just as they were preparing to jointly drag the armless man, the man suddenly opened his eyes and directly stood up.

Instantly, Ren Ziling’s heart jumped rapidly—she was frightened.

Lizi’s pupils contracted a bit, flipping her hand to her back, forming a sharp ice spike in her palm instantly.

Yet once the armless man stood up, he remained stationary in place, his head bowed, silent for a while.

Ren Ziling, being bold, picked up a branch from the roadside and poked it at the armless man’s shoulder, unexpectedly this poke made him fall to the ground again.

“Seems he passed out again?” Akiko observed for a while and said.

“e.”

Ren Ziling walked to the back of the armless man, reached out to grab the hefty branch, so Lizi stepped to the other side, followed by Akiko.

The three of them managed to lift the armless man, surprisingly finding him much heavier than expected. After a while, they moved him to the roadside.

“What to do now?”

“What else can we do? Wait for someone to e.” Ren Ziling shrugged, “Are you thinking of loading him into the car?”

Lizi made a gagging gesture.

“There’s a river over there, let’s get some water to rinse him…” Ren Ziling pinching her nose said.

After some operation, they barely cleaned up the armless man, Ren Ziling exclaimed with amazement, poking him with a branch on his chest, “He’s quite muscular, too bad an arm is missing.”

This can’t merely be described as muscular… This armless man’s body rivaling a bodybuilding contestant, radiating male hormones all over.

“Sister Ren, you look so lecherous…” Lizi couldn’t help rubbing her forehead.

But Miss Ren has seen through many situations and scenes.

“Tch!” Ren Ziling raised the branch, lifted the armless man’s waistband.

“Sister Ren, you…” Lizi couldn’t find where to start plaining, “I’ve heard Luo Qiu isn’t your biological child?”

“So what?” Ren Ziling glared.

“I heard when you married over, the child was already in middle school?” Lizi seemed to have found some remarkable incident.

Ren Ziling forcefully tapped Lizi on the head with the branch, rolling her eyes, “What are you thinking? Oh, only men are allowed the skill of measuring cup size over swimwear?”

“You make a good point, I surprisingly have no words to counter?”

Hmm… Doesn’t seem to be a problem.

“Stop arguing, he seems to be waking up.” Then Akiko had to stop Ren Ziling’s off-topic remarks… It feels like ever since ing around this woman, her worldview has been constantly refreshed.

Just like Akiko said, the armless man slowly opened his eyes.

“Sir, are you alright? Did something happen?” Ren Ziling immediately put on an intellectual demeanor.

The armless man blankly stared at the three people in front of him, “Who am I, where am I…”