Wind and Rain in the Mountains
Shennongjia.
Rumble——!
Low thunder sounded between the cloud layers. Several military off-road vehicles rushed past the muddy mountain road. Within the piercingly bright car light beams, raindrops were just like fine and dense steel needles, hitting the car windows issuing di di da da sounds.
"This is car number one, we still have seven hundred meters to arrive at the temporary stronghold. The weather is severe, pay attention to distinguishing the surrounding environment."
On the leading off-road vehicle, a figure in the passenger seat pulled up the radio, speaking in a deep voice.
"Car number two received."
"Car number three received."
"Car number four..."
"Yang Xiao, what are you thinking?" A voice sounded from beside him.
"...No, nothing."
Yang Xiao recovered his senses, subconsciously shaking his head.
Both of his hands placed on his knees, unconsciously rubbed his joints. His body didn't lean against the back of the chair, but rather somewhat stiffly straightened up.
The man beside him sighed a breath, "Yang Xiao, no need to be this nervous... It's just a meteorite exploration that's all. I have already participated in this kind of operation many times, there won't be any danger."
"Dr. Lu, I understand your meaning... But, but this time is different."
Yang Xiao turned his head back. Under the rising and falling car light illumination of the off-road vehicle behind, his face was indeterminately bright and dark, "When that meteor approached Earth, all magnetic field indicators went chaotic. The whole globe a total of twelve laboratories involving magnetic field research, the data detected by every single one was all different..."
"I know. Because some meteors have special structures, under close distance they will disrupt the geomagnetic field. This isn't any rare matter."
"No! Even if Earth's magnetic field was disrupted, reasonably speaking the data detected by every laboratory also wouldn't have too big of a difference. At most it would just be according to the moving trajectory of the meteor, producing a dislocation in time... But this time is different. The data detected by every laboratory was all abnormally outrageous! That absolutely wasn't the magnetic field fluctuation of Earth itself!"
Yang Xiao's Adam's apple rolled up and down. After he paused for a moment, staring at Dr. Lu's eyes, seriously said,
"In that... thing that doesn't know what thing it is, in the instant it swiped past... Earth's own magnetic field and at least twelve other things overlapped... No, even far more than these. We detected twelve, just because we only have twelve of this kind of laboratory..."
"What things?"
"Parallel space-time? Parallel universe? Dark matter creatures? Or what other worlds we cannot see. In short there definitely was something when it swiped past above our heads, and brushed past shoulders with our world."
Dr. Lu blanked out. He like recalled something, silently moving away his gaze.
"Dr. Lu, you are an expert in Astrophysics. You should also have noticed the abnormality, right?" Yang Xiao tightly stared at him, "That absolutely isn't any simple 'meteor'. Otherwise, you wouldn't gather this group of us together..."
Lu Xun was just about to open his mouth, the vehicle then slowly stopped. Beams of flashlight rays flashed past outside the window, like there was someone approaching towards here.
A tall and big figure draped in a black raincoat, chest hanging a gun walked over from the rain, knocking the car door.
"Dr. Lu, Dr. Yang, time to get off the car."
"...Let's go." Lu Xun pulled out the umbrella under the seat, opening the car door.
The place the vehicle docked, was a piece of forest area. The contours of the continuous mountain ranges in the distance hid into the darkness. In the rain they were like countless giant beasts prostrating on the great earth, coldly watching this group of outsiders intruding into nature.
Yang Xiao propped up the umbrella, wading through the mud rapidly walking towards the distance. Inside the several off-road vehicles behind, people also successively got off.
The wind and rain in the mountains was very big, the umbrella basically couldn't block it. Without walking a few steps Yang Xiao's face and hair was then wetted by the rainwater. While he wiped the rainwater in front of his eyes, the shouting sound of an officer beside him sounded amidst the roaring thunder:
"Put the umbrellas away!! The wind in the mountains at night is very big! Propping up umbrellas will blow you guys away! The deep forest in the darkness is very dangerous! Once lost we will be very hard to find you guys back!!"
Hearing this sentence, the crowd could only all put away the umbrellas. Letting the cold freezing rain hit on their bodies, soaking wet their clothes and shoes.
Fortunately they hadn't walked for long, dots of light rays then lit up in the distance. Those were ten-odd camouflage tents pitched between the forest area. They surrounded together. The cloth material of the tents fluttered about in the wind, issuing hua hua sounds.
The crowd straightly walked into one of the tents, only then temporarily dodging the wind and rain. But they had also long been drenched like drowned rats.
"Everyone has worked hard along the way." A figure walked up forward, distributing dry towels to the crowd.
"I am the person in charge of this exploration, Wang Xinye."
"Elder Wang, we meet again." Lu Xun used the dry towel to wipe a handful of his face, long sighing a breath, "How is the situation right now?"
"The first batch of squad going to detect, up to now is still in a state of lost contact. It has already been eight hours... The second squad departed to now two hours, similarly without any response."
Lost contact?
Hearing these two words, someone behind Lu Xun had their face go white.
"Dr. Lu, didn't you say it was only exploring meteor fragments? How come... how come still can lose contact?" A scientific researcher with slightly curly hair couldn't hold back opening his mouth.
"Perhaps it's a certain component inside the meteor, will cause electromagnetic interference. This is very normal." Not waiting for Lu Xun to open his mouth, a female doctor then calmly answered, "Dr. Wu doesn't need to make a fuss about nothing."
"Me making a fuss about nothing? Dr. Su, didn't you see the people here are all carrying guns?" Dr. Wu widened his eyes,
"Exploring a meteor, since when needed to alarm the military??"
"Alright alright, this cannot blame Dr. Wu... It's me who didn't explain clearly to him." Lu Xun sighed a breath, "Old Wu, in a while we will chat privately."
"You... sigh, fine then."
Dr. Wu wanted to say something but stopped.
Wang Xinye's gaze swept past the crowd, looking at the time, saying to Lu Xun:
"Dr. Lu, right now the weather is too severe, this round of exploration needs to be delayed a bit... You guys first rest a bit in the tent area, build up energy and conserve strength ba. The rest I will handle."
"Okay."
Along with Wang Xinye bringing people hurriedly leaving. Inside this tent besides the few soldiers standing guard, then remained nine scientific researchers. Lu Xun gave Dr. Wu a look, the two then walked out of the tent alone.
The other people wiped dry the rainwater. Some chatted with each other, some then walked towards other tents, seemingly somewhat curious.
At the same time.
Outside the tent area where the heavy rain poured down, a figure wet all over, slowly walked out from the darkness.
He stood on a Hill, seeing several White Coat figures shuttling back and forth inside the tent area, long sighing a breath,
"Caught up huh..."