"Hello? Hello?" Jiang Yu adjusted the angle of her earpiece and pressed the button on its side a few times.
But the communications channel was completely silent.
She could not help feeling a little creeped out.
With a thud, Ling Xiao crawled out of the ventilation duct as well and landed on the floor.
"Ling Xiao... my, my communications device seems to be broken." Jiang Yu hurriedly said to Ling Xiao. "Can you still contact the team leader and the others?"
"Your device isn't broken. The communications have just been cut off," Ling Xiao said calmly.
He took out the little car-shaped drone from behind him. The red indicator light on its rear, signifying "signal lost," was flashing rhythmically.
Normally, explorations of ducts, tombs, and similar places called for wired snake drones as standard equipment. However, the 67th Field Operations Team had received the mission in a hurry and had no time to return to the Anomaly Research Institute to select new equipment, so they could only head to the target location with what they had on hand.
"Then what do we do?" Jiang Yu asked anxiously. "Should we go back the way we came?"
Ling Xiao looked up at the ventilation duct opening in the ceiling and shook his head. "I don't think we can... 'go back the way we came.'"
Jiang Yu was confused. "What do you mean?"
"Do you remember how the team leader and Yin Xiang both said that communications inside Factory 105 had always been working, but no one answered the phones?" Ling Xiao said.
"Yeah... b-but our radio communications..." Jiang Yu's sentence came out in a jumble, much like her thoughts.
"There's a phone hanging over there. You can try and see whether you can make a call," Ling Xiao said, pointing at the