Chapter Ninety-Two: Entering the Otherworldly Realm

Soon, Wild Blade and Lin Xingyun selected a few others, and together with Gu Sha, they made up exactly ten men. Every one of them was armed to the teeth, nearly all carrying rocket launchers and Gatling guns, with some even lugging sacks of explosives.

Only Gu Sha went lightly equipped.

He carried only a large backpack and held that Bone King in his hand.

Once preparations were complete, the researchers activated the spatial module.

The rift in space opened.

Gu Sha took the lead and surged in first.

The instant he entered the rift, he felt a tremendous force seize him, tearing at his body with mad violence. Then came a sensation of being rent apart, as though he were wrapped in a hurricane.

But it lasted only an instant.

In the blink of an eye, Gu Sha emerged amid a field of ruins.

Just as in the vision from memory, they had arrived in the ruins of a collapsed skyscraper. All around were many zombies. Beneath the wreckage, countless zombies and human bodies had been buried, and those zombies were howling frantically.

The moment they saw Gu Sha appear, a huge swarm of zombies rushed toward him.

Gu Sha gave a cold snort. With a light sweep of the Bone King, the terrifying power of the inscriptions burst forth, and every zombie in that mass had its head shattered as one corpse core after another was gathered in by Gu Sha.

More than a dozen corpse cores in all; five of them were above the third rank, and among them were two fifth-rank cores.

A treasure trove.

Gu Sha was secretly exhilarated.

For others, this place was no different from hell, but to Gu Sha, it was a land of riches.

On Earth, obtaining high-rank corpse cores had become extremely difficult. After the C City barrier shattered, Gu Sha had slaughtered there for a full month, killing who knew how many zombies and beastkin, yet fifth-rank corpse cores had still been exceedingly rare. And here, he had obtained two the moment he arrived.

At that moment, from the spatial rift behind Gu Sha, Lin Xingyun, Wild Blade, and the others were emerging one after another.

The moment they descended, as in the memory scene Gu Sha had seen, everyone was stunned.

No one was surprised that the city had become so ruined; after all, Gu Sha had dropped so many cruise missiles here before, so it was only natural that the place would have been turned upside down.

What shocked them was that there were so many zombies here.

Under the others' stares, Wild Blade said helplessly, "I really don't know what happened. When I came here before, there weren't any zombies at all. I don't know how so many of them appeared!"

As he spoke, he looked toward Gu Sha and asked, "Boss, you definitely know what's going on, right?"

"He tricked you," Gu Sha said. "There have always been zombies in this city. Only, when you came here before, someone was deliberately creating an illusion for you, making you feel this was a perfect sanctuary."

"Boss, what do you mean? Why would they do that?" Wild Blade asked.

The others were equally baffled.

Gu Sha said, "I said before that this alternate space had a problem. Otherwise, why would I have launched missiles in here? As for why they wanted to deceive us, it's simple. They had designs on Earth. They lied to us so we'd open the spatial rift. That's all there is to it."

At once, everyone's expression changed dramatically.

Lin Xingyun's heart tightened even further, and he suddenly felt that Lu Shanyou had not died unjustly.

The other side had been concealing the truth deliberately, which meant they must have been plotting something enormous.

If Gu Sha had not discovered the problem and stopped them, then according to their original plan of successfully establishing a spatial passage, who knew what disaster they might have brought upon Earth.

So from beginning to end, the one endangering Earth was not Gu Sha, but them.

"Move!"

Gu Sha had no intention of wasting more words. He led the group toward the sanctuary he had seen in the future vision.

In that vision of the future, he had fought in this city for a very long time and knew its layout fairly well, so he knew the easiest route to the sanctuary.

Along the way, they did encounter many zombies, but under Gu Sha's guidance, they successfully avoided the areas where powerful zombies were hiding. Though there were some rough patches, they ultimately arrived without incident. None of the zombies they met exceeded the fifth rank. In just one hour, they reached the sanctuary.

The sanctuary was a heavily fortified military base, its outer walls built from top-grade metal.

Just as in the future scene he had seen, once they arrived at the sanctuary, Gu Sha and the others received a warm welcome from the survivors inside.

And the moment Gu Sha and his group entered the base, in a secret chamber within the base, a group of people sat dining while watching surveillance footage. They were all high-ranking members of the base. At their head was a corpulent middle-aged man, who was using a knife and fork to cut and eat his food.

On his plate lay a bloody cow's heart, while on the table there were also several cuts of fresh meat, washed clean and neatly arranged.

The base's upper echelon held knives and forks, leisurely slicing the meat onto their plates, all very refined and civilized.

The base commander chuckled and said, "Meat from people raised on nothing but vegetables really is the most tender."

One of the others echoed, "Indeed. But people raised only on vegetables don't grow very large. Not worth promoting on a broad scale."

The commander smiled and pointed at the surveillance screen.

On the screen were Gu Sha and his group walking through the base.

Pointing at them, the commander said, "This kind of creature has the best meat of all, better than anything from any animal."

As he spoke, he set down his knife and fork.

"It looks like Earth has probably sensed something by now, which is why they dropped so many missiles. So the old baiting plan has to change."

The others set down their cutlery and listened quietly.

The commander said, "Kill some, control some, and then find a way to communicate with Earth. Using these people's identities, tell the Earth side that things here are a bit troublesome, but can still be developed, though strong reinforcements are needed.

"Then have them take the spatial barrier restrictions off Earth on their own and establish a spatial corridor. By then, our mission will be complete, and we won't have to remain in this prison-like place any longer."

The others all nodded in agreement.

The commander said, "All right, let's end this meal here. Everyone should go do what needs doing."

At once, the group rose and left in all directions.

The commander wiped the blood from his mouth, replaced it with a simple, honest expression, and led a few people out of the building and onto the plaza. From afar, he spotted Gu Sha's group, and his face broke into an exceedingly warm smile.

From a distance, the commander held out his hand and jogged over, seizing Wild Blade's hand and saying, "Brother Wild Blade, I knew you'd come back. You came back at just the right time. If you hadn't returned, I wouldn't even know how to get through this disaster..."

However, at that very moment, Gu Sha suddenly took up a Gatling gun and opened fire directly at the commander.