This time, even the Sequence Three guide could not make sense of it.
He frowned, staring fixedly at the two bone whips. His instincts told him that the man named Cao Xianming would never do anything pointless.
The other convoys' vehicles began reversing slowly and steadily.
The vehicles that had brought up the rear now took the lead.
The remaining vehicles maintained exactly the same speed, backing out of the tunnel inch by inch.
Only after the last vehicle from the other convoys rolled across that invisible boundary at the tunnel entrance.
Did the remaining vehicles follow them out, one after another.
Once every vehicle outside the Survival Convoy had left, Cao Xianming stepped forward.
"Everyone, pay attention."
He spoke. "When we go out in a moment, you must maintain exactly the same speed."
"Not even a millimeter of difference."
His words left everyone full of questions. Qi Peiliang asked on their behalf, "Captain Cao, why exactly?"
Cao Xianming glanced back into the pitch-black depths of the tunnel.
It looked like the open maw of a giant beast, watching them hungrily.
"Because this tunnel might..."
He paused, then gave an answer that froze everyone's blood. "Be alive."
The tunnel... was alive?
Those words struck like a thunderbolt, leaving everyone stunned and their minds blank.
Ignoring their shock, Cao Xianming continued explaining in that voice of his, so calm it was almost cruel. "It only looks like a tunnel."
"To be precise, it should be some kind of Eerie, an elongated Eerie capable of connecting two worlds."
At this point, he raised a finger. "The tunnel itself is an Eerie..."
"There's a ninety-nine percent probability of that."
An uproar erupted...
The crowd erupted like a pan of hot oil.
What the hell?
*They had actually spent all that time inside an