After sending Trading Weird Tales up to the surface.
Xiao Shen, Zhang Ming, Ma Teng, and Liu Qiang received new orders to head for a corridor with only even-numbered rooms, where a squad might have encountered danger.
According to the report.
The squad had encountered an Evil Spirit made up of human heads, which might have emerged from an elevator.
They killed the Evil Spirit.
But they had not completely cleared it out.
A small amount of the flocculent material that made up the Evil Spirit had escaped.
There might be hidden dangers.
The report also mentioned that their location was a three-way intersection, with a strange room on the left. Not only was the main door wide open, but the room number was odd as well, making it stand out awkwardly among the surrounding rooms with even numbers.
Their next step.
They planned to explore that odd-numbered room and the corridor to the left of the intersection.
Because they had discovered.
At the end of this corridor stood a mirror.
As tall as a person.
With a wooden frame.
It had a distinctly old-fashioned style.
That was their last message. After that, no further news came back.
According to plan.
Communications were obstructed within the ruins.
So at regular intervals, they had to return in person to report.
This procedure was very cumbersome.
And inefficient.
But in a special environment, this was the only way to ensure the transmission of intelligence.
Moreover.
Every return.
Was also an opportunity to clear and confirm the passage they had come through.
This could guard against many risks.
The ruins were strange.
It did not matter if they were a little slower. What mattered was exploring them as thoroughly as possible.
Now that the squad had failed to return and report on