By the elevator.
Doors along the corridor were opened one after another. Xiao Shen, one of the leaders of the third exploration team, cautiously led his men in inspecting the interior of each room.
"Door Number Three is normal."
"There's nothing inside Door Number Four."
"There's a bloodstained piece of clothing inside Door Number Five. Send it back to the fleet for testing immediately."
The work was simple.
But dangerous.
No one knew what they would encounter after opening a door.
It was like opening a blind box.
There might be nothing inside, everything perfectly normal.
Or they might open it to find an evil spirit standing there, ready to attack.
While they were opening the doors.
Some supernatural phenomena also occurred.
For instance.
They heard strange rustling noises behind the doors, the sound of breaking glass, or what sounded like someone singing... but once the doors were fully open, the rooms were usually empty, with nothing inside.
"Record everything."
Expressionless, Xiao Shen repeated the instruction tirelessly.
Each room required three kinds of records.
Video.
Photographs.
Written notes.
If there were any objects, they had to collect them, pack them up, and send them back to the surface for testing.
"Captain."
"Door Thirty-Six won't open."
"Come take a look."
"Something's wrong."
A teammate called out, and Xiao Shen immediately walked over.
"What's wrong?"
"It feels like something's jamming this door. No matter what we try, we can only push it open a crack," several teammates said.
The rooms along the corridor.
Did not have doors that swung inward or outward.
Instead, they had sliding doors on tracks.
This door had already been pulled open a crack, roughly a palm's width.
Based on their previous experience, once the lock was released, the door should slide easily to the other side.
But