Authority

In the brief silence, Lin An digested the information before tentatively asking again:

"Has anyone ever come out of the gate? Or anything else?"

The question came from the Second Will.

The Second Will's target of revenge was the person who had come out from behind the gate.

Based on the timeline of his previous life, the Second Will should have learned about the person inside the gate four or even five years ago.

That person should have come out very early.

This meant that the Underground City Project had most likely also been the work of the person behind the gate.

"Come out!?"

"Impossible!"

"Nothing can possibly come out from behind the gate!"

Their reactions were intense.

The Awakened who had been questioned shook his head rapidly, as though he did not even dare think about the question.

"Comrade Lin An, we're absolutely certain that nothing can come out from behind the gate!"

Everyone's faces were filled with terror. The most nervous among them even turned deathly pale on instinct:

"If something really did come out, we'd all die! We would've died long ago!"

This was unexpected.

Lin An glanced at them in surprise and discovered that this fear seemed etched into their very bones.

After all, these people had been carefully selected elite soldiers whose willpower far surpassed that of ordinary people.

He had merely mentioned it in passing, yet they acted as if they had heard news more terrifying than the end of the world.

Faced with such an intense reaction, Lin An quickly realized that the military had probably come into contact with the existence behind the gate.

Then, when these people had said earlier that they did not know what was inside the gate,

had they been unable to say, or unable to speak?

Silently