Wong obediently tossed aside his boots, walked into the room and shut the door, then opened it and walked back out. After testing it, he found nothing unusual.
He could not make sense of it, so he could only wait for Su Ming to explain.
"Let me put it this way. I'll use the clues to reconstruct what happened." Su Ming's mask receded as he pulled out a cigarette and lit it with the box of matches from earlier. "First, not long ago, the Leviathan established a research station here. After draining the lake, they drilled a hole at the bottom of the pit. No idea where it leads, but that's where they found their Zero Matter."
"Then, a month ago, a group of outsiders who were clearly not here for Christmas broke in. They made a huge spectacle of themselves without concealing their actions at all, triggering the alarm. When these soldiers rushed out of the rooms, the intruders used some method to freeze them at the doorway. It was most likely time freezing, since these guards clearly survived for a month without food or water. That group didn't kill them. It seems they simply headed for the underground pit and never came back out."
"Then, an hour or two ago, a third group arrived. Maybe they triggered some restriction or damaged some mechanism, because the people whose time had been 'frozen' woke up. They mistook the newcomers for the previous invaders, so naturally the two sides fought. The third group wasn't large, but their individual combat abilities were extremely high. After eliminating a third of their enemies, they may have suddenly vanished or turned invisible. The surviving guards searched around the pit for a while, then entered the underground area as well to pursue the third group."
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