Chapter 340: Elite Squad
Elite Team
"I came here to close the portal at the war base, but with your situation, there probably aren't any portals in the city. Those soldiers likely want me to send the entire city back... they really know how to put people to work."
Thinking about those soldiers' cold, pragmatic utilitarianism that didn't even spare their own corpses, Lin Ye could roughly guess that the three bases they pointed him to would probably be more troublesome, one after another.
"Can we really go back?"
A sliver of hope stirred in Xiya's heart.
"Probably, but do you really want to go back? The people who sent you over there wouldn't want to see this situation."
As the two moved through the ruins, the skinned people following them were gradually decreasing.
"Of course, I don't want to die in a place like this. Whether those people are willing or not has nothing to do with us, just like our opinions have nothing to do with them."
Xiya understood very clearly what consequences Windflower City returning to its original position would cause, but what did that have to do with them?
"Good, I hope you won't regret it." Lin Ye followed Xiya into the interior of an abandoned factory building. In one corner of the factory, Xiya lifted a floor panel leading to an underground space.
The factory basement was the survivors' shelter.
"Big Sister Xiya is back... who's that guy in the military uniform?"
"That military uniform doesn't look fake, was there someone like that in the city? Could it be..."
"An outsider? Who brought him in? Why don't I see the survivors who went outside?"
...
The underground space was divided into various areas. The air was filled with a mixture of foul odors. Over a hundred survivors were crammed into this narrow underground space, barely surviving.
Xiya gathered everyone together and then explained the current situation to them.
"Sigh, we really aren't in our original world anymore..."
"What do we do? Can that person really send us back?"
"Isn't it bad to bring these monsters back? Can't we find a way to go back ourselves?"
"Bad?! Think about those bastards who abandoned us! I'd rather die than not send these monsters back!"
"They probably had no choice either..."
"We have no choice either. Anyway, I don't want to wait here to die."
...
Lin Ye didn't participate in the survivors' discussion. Instead, he carefully felt the influence of the heads above on his consciousness. After all, no matter what conclusion these survivors reached, what he needed to do wouldn't change.
Underground, the influence of those heads on Lin Ye weakened significantly. He wanted to gradually adapt to this influence.
Only this way could he move normally in this ruined city.
'Maybe I can construct a layer of mental protection... Basic Ritual Studies and the knowledge Little Ye gave me seem to have techniques close to this...'
Lin Ye recalled various pieces of knowledge. He hadn't learned how to construct mental protection because building mental protection was a very dangerous act—it was equivalent to concentrating all of the consciousness's defensive power on the outer layer of the Consciousness.
In this situation, if the mental protection was breached, the Consciousness would have no resistance at all.
'But I can use other techniques to achieve the effect of mental protection...'