mijobooks Chapter 560 There are always reckless men who go in.
Chapter 560 There are always reckless men who go in.
The tank engine roared to life.
Almost all magic is forbidden in Foxkov, including soundproofing magic.
"Hey, why don't you unlock the soundproofing magic?"
Hyacinth, sitting in the gunner's seat, was loading bullets into Akayuki's rifle magazine. While doing this, she picked up the intercom and spoke to the fox girl on the commander's tower.
Su Tianqing was observing the brand-new heavy machine gun in front of the commander's tower when she heard Hyacinth's voice coming through her earpiece. She turned around and glared at her.
Even Chi Xue cast an old, piercing gaze at Feng Xinzi, making her shrink back.
Chi Xue looked like she wanted to say something but felt it wouldn't be good to say it, so she suppressed her inner desire and said:
"...Are you serious?"
"If you don't want to give it to me, then don't... Why are you glaring at me like that..." Hyacinth muttered under her breath, shrinking her neck.
"It's not that I won't let you use it. It's very simple to grant you access to magic in the mental world, but this is a dream world distorted by Garuda. What if Garuda discovers and exploits even the underlying logic?"
Chi Xue continued, attempting to explain to Fengxinzi.
Seeing the bewildered expression on her direct junior's face, Akayuki seemed to understand something and tentatively asked:
"...Hyacinth, you don't mean you have absolutely no knowledge of magic or related concepts, do you?"
"No way, I do know some basic magic. My flying magic is amazing," Hyacinth replied, her face flushed as she finished loading a magazine of bullets.
She rattled off a string of spell names, including things like storage, flight magic, missiles, magic shocks, and magic barriers. Chi Xue and Xin Yuehu exchanged a glance and said:
"Aren't these just the most basic spells?" "What about others? Can you draw barriers?"
silence.
Hyacinth remained silent for a while, then looked at the Eye of Sauron in the distance, trying to change the subject.
"Ah... Come to think of it, that tower looks incredibly impressive! What if we investigate it later...?"
"Don't change the subject. Has Bai Ling ever seriously explained the relevant theories of magic to you?" Chi Xue continued to press.
Hyacinth fell silent again, this time for a long time. Her face turned red and then pale, and finally she made a crying face and bowed her head to admit her mistake in front of her senior.
"I'm sorry... I was dozing off while Bai Ling was lecturing to Iris and the others..."
"You dare sleep in that?"
"Because I figured I'm a melee fighter, magic and stuff are just extras, so..."
Chi Xue put her hands on her hips, hesitated to speak, and finally sighed helplessly.
Su Tianqing listened silently to the whole thing, tightening her orc-style tactical headphones on her head, and couldn't help but think that the protagonist really was the protagonist.
You mean that Hyacinth, despite knowing almost nothing about advanced magic, can fight Cat to a 30/70 or even 40/60 split using only melee basic attacks and basic magic?
Hey, it seems like the cat has never used high-level magic either. You two Nan sisters are clearly of different races, how come you look exactly like the rabbit sisters?
"Um, reporting to Captain Fox! There seems to be something ahead!"
Suddenly, the driver, Marigold, spoke, and the three men in the turret all looked up at the front of the vehicle.
The tank slowly slowed down and stopped at the street corner leading to the Eye of Sauron tower. Everyone stared in disbelief at the exaggerated scene on the road ahead:
The road was covered with green metal discs, as big as washbasins, filling the entire street.
They were all anti-tank mines.
"…………"
Even Chi Xue was speechless now. She observed the anti-tank minefield that filled the streets with expressionless faces, and after a long silence, she finally spoke:
"Are these things really meant to protect us? Is it really necessary?"
"I'm not sure, let's get out and walk. It seems this car really can't be driven anymore."
"I'm so sad to part with this tank, sob sob sob..."
Hyacinth cried out in anguish, but clearing a path through the anti-tank minefield that covered the entire street would take even longer. The four crew members had no choice but to get out of the vehicle and prepare to close all the hatches securely. Marigold had also put the crank key to start the engine in her pocket.
Without the tank, the four had no choice but to walk through the ruins.
The narrow paths through the ruins were still walkable. After avoiding several dangerous, crumbling areas, the team quickly reached the outer perimeter of the tower and looked at the four- or five-meter-high walls with a sense of unease.
"This wall is quite high."
Hyacinth tried to find a foothold and attempted to climb over the wall, but after looking around and seeing nothing to stand on, she quickly gave up on this unrealistic idea.
"It seems the person who built this tower doesn't really want anyone to go inside," Marigold muttered to herself, clutching the assault rifle she'd taken from the tank turret's spare basket.
Following the wall, adhering to the idea that "where there is a building, there must be a way in," I indeed found an open door when I turned a corner.
Peeking out from the doorway, the base of the tower is fully visible.
The blazing golden-red flames at the spire remained unshaken, and the base's color scheme and architectural style were similar to those of the adjacent spire, with a bright, reflective light emanating from its dark background.
"This place gives me the creeps."
Hyacinth gripped the assault rifle in her hand and muttered something under her breath.
She truly expressed the collective sentiment of the four-person team—this place was not only unsettling, but also instilled a deep-seated fear: an instinctive dread of the unknown.
"Let's go in and take a look," said Xin Yuehu.
Hyacinth glanced at the golden-haired fox girl beside her in surprise. Before she could say anything to stop her, the fox girl had already stepped into the gate and walked towards the base of the tower.
Chi Xue followed closely behind, but was clearly more vigilant, keeping her hands on the fully reloaded automatic rifle as she cautiously observed her surroundings.
"Senior and Fox-Fox have already gone in... Should we go in too?"
"We can't just stay outside like this, we should go and see what's going on too."
The hyacinth mustered its courage, and encouraged the marigolds beside it as well, and followed closely in the footsteps of those who had come before it into the gate of the walled village.
"Clang—Boom!"
"!!"
Before I had taken more than a few steps inside, the heavy double gate behind me made a low rumbling sound and closed firmly in the blink of an eye.
"It's closed?!"
"I can't believe it," Marigold said in a panic. She turned around and ran to the door, looking around for a while, but she couldn't see anything that looked like she could open the door.
"Why does it have to be this kind of plot where something bad is about to happen..." Hyacinth muttered to herself, her unease growing stronger.
In most movies and storylines, when the main characters' team enters an unfamiliar building, the following situations are considered extremely high-risk:
The door closes behind you, the lights suddenly go out or open, the windows are inexplicably blown shut by the wind, and the radio or television suddenly starts playing programs—and these programs must be those with hoarse sound and blurry picture quality that are essentially interference.
In these situations, it's best to run as fast as possible, rather than recklessly charging in like the audacious fox and Chi Xue in front of you.
"Look, there's a door here."
Chi Xue, who was walking at the front with her gun raised, said that she had already approached the base of the tower and seemed to have made some important discovery. She turned around and beckoned everyone to come over.
There was indeed a tightly closed door on the dark base of the tower. There was no lock or combination lock, but a relatively simple but very sturdy valve lock.
"There must be some important clue hidden in here. Let me open it." Without the slightest hesitation, Su Tianqing rolled up her sleeves and prepared to unscrew it herself.
Is there a door in this dream world built on the foundation of my mind that I cannot open?
The fox's little hands gripped the rotary valve, its tail taut and ears perked up, as it twisted it with all its might.
...twist.
Twist it!
Su Tianqing's hands ached from twisting the valve.
"This door is so heavy!" The golden-haired fox girl exclaimed in surprise, shaking her hands and taking two steps back.
"Is it really that heavy? Let me try. Your skinny arms and legs don't look like you have any strength."
Chi Xue laughed and complained, taking over from Xin Yuehu who had been knocked down by the valve, and personally twisted it.
Twist twice.
...Twist it three times!
Chi Xue was defeated.
"Hehehe, keep laughing, you still haven't opened it." The fox girl covered her mouth and chuckled mischievously.
"How was I supposed to know this thing was so heavy!" Chi Xue and Xin Yuehu both showed the same surprised expression and tacitly stepped aside.
"Hmm...or rather, is there some other way to open it? Like a key or something..." Marigold tentatively suggested.
Seeing the door without any interlocking holes, Marigold simply couldn't bring herself to say, "Find out where the password is."
Seeing this, Hyacinth stepped forward and took over from Heart Moon Fox, placing both hands on the valve turntable and gripping it tightly, then twisting it with a little force.
"Squeak..."
"It's not heavy at all, it's very easy."
The three of them looked at the hyacinth as if they were sizing up a blue-haired gorilla.
The gate slowly opened, its weight exceeding expectations; no one would doubt that it was the gate of a nuclear protection facility.
As the first person to open the door, and also the one who is currently considered the most resilient in the team, Hyacinth volunteered to be the first to enter the door. After adjusting to the darkness inside for a while, she opened her magically enhanced eyes to observe her surroundings.
But her body suddenly stopped, her steps froze in place, and she trembled as if she had seen something extremely terrifying.
"Hyacinth? Why are you stopping? What's inside?"
The golden-haired fox girl poked the blue-haired gorilla's back, poked half of her fox head into the doorway, squinted to adjust her eyes, and then froze at the doorway with Hyacinth, speechless.
The base of the tower is a relatively spacious area.
Yet, in this vast space, countless photos were prominently displayed.
Every inch of the ceiling, every floorboard, every wall surface—all are covered with photos.
Whether incomplete or overlapping, scattered and disorganized, they occupy almost the entire visible building area.
Upon witnessing this shocking and bizarre scene, the two, who had been stunned, shook their heads violently to regain their senses. They hurriedly retreated outside the door, exchanged glances, and their faces were filled with terror and horror.
After hesitating for a moment, Su Tianqing gently exhaled a breath of stale air and sighed:
"...We really did come to the right place."