Chapter 00215: Send People to Search the Mountain
# Send People to Search the Mountain
Chapter 215
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 215 Send People to Search the Mountain
Behind Lin Qiaoya were three students Li Chengxi did not recognize, but seeing that each of them was clutching a phone and seemed very anxious, his heart skipped a beat.
"Teacher Lin, calm down. What exactly happened?"
Li Chengxi saw Lin Qiaoya was in a panic and knew they had to get the story straight first.
Lin Qiaoya calmed down a bit and said:
"Earlier, we went up the mountain to see the view. I saw it was getting a bit late, so I suggested bringing people down the mountain. But a few students felt they hadn't seen enough, so Teacher Wang Degui suggested that I first bring back the students who wanted to go down, and he would bring the other students down before dark. But now it's past six o'clock, and Teacher Wang Degui still hasn't brought anyone down."
It was no wonder Lin Qiaoya was so anxious.
Although this was not an official school activity, it was still a teacher taking students out for fun.
If anything happened, she would be the one primarily responsible.
"Did you try calling them?"
"I did, I called several times, but it always said they were out of the service area."
"You can't get through to any of their phones?"
"I find it strange too. I can't reach any of them. Maybe there are no signal base stations in the mountains."
That shouldn't be the case.
After all, Golden Bull Mountain was planned for tourism development.
A signal base station should have been one of the first things built.
Li Chengxi also took out his phone and called Xue Wenshu, but the receiver only played the message, 'The number you have dialed is not in the service area.'
The sky was completely dark now, but there was only one zigzag path up and down Golden Bull Mountain, and it was connected to the viewing platform.
As long as you were not blind, it should be impossible to get lost.
Li Chengxi saw that Xue Wenshu's young girlfriend was not behind Lin Qiaoya and thought to himself, could that kid have taken his girlfriend to sneak into the woods?
Thinking about it carefully, setting aside the fact that there were other people, Xue Wenshu did not have the guts.
With Li Chengxi's understanding of Xue Wenshu, the most he would dare to do was hold hands.
In a place where it was impossible to get lost, a group of several living people had failed to come down the mountain, and their phones were unreachable.
This whole thing was strange.
"Teacher Lin, don't worry for now. I'll go ask around. Maybe they've already come down, or maybe they just wanted to stay on the viewing platform to look at the stars. But whatever you do, don't go up the mountain yourself."
Lin Qiaoya seemed to have panicked completely.
Hearing Li Chengxi's words, she quickly nodded.
Li Chengxi turned and hurried back to his room, found Qian Sen, and explained the situation.
Listening from the side, Lin Tuyuan said in a low voice:
"It's hard to get lost on Golden Bull Mountain. Basically, as long as you find a spot with sparse vegetation and look, you can see Golden Bull Village below. I happen to be from Golden Bull Village, and I went up the mountain a lot as a child to dig for wild vegetables and pick mushrooms."
Most of the villagers in Golden Bull Village had the surname Lin.
Both Lin Qiaoya and Lin Tuyuan were from Golden Bull Village, so maybe the two of them knew each other.
"There are no wild beasts on this mountain, are there?"
"No, the children in our village dare to go up the mountain alone at six or seven years old. It's unlikely they got lost."
Qian Sen also said:
"Perhaps they really just stayed on the viewing platform to watch the stars?"
"But the calls won't go through at all, it says they're out of the service area. Didn't you guys clean up everything on this mountain?"
"Don't worry just yet. It could be that the infrastructure around here isn't finished. A bad signal doesn't necessarily mean there's a supernatural influence."
That was the main worry.
After all, he had heard the mountain was haunted before.
If something that had not been cleaned up came out to cause trouble again...
That would be trouble.
"How about this, I'll go up the mountain with you to the viewing platform to have a look. If we don't find them, we'll call the police to search the mountain."
As a local, Lin Tuyuan was extremely familiar with Golden Bull Mountain.
He could walk down from the mountain even with his eyes closed.
Hearing this, Li Chengxi nodded and took the flashlight Qian Sen handed him.
Just then, Lin Tuyuan's phone suddenly rang.
He gestured to wait and then answered the call.
"Yes, I'm at Golden Bull Mountain. What? The spatial shift signal is nearby too? Okay, I understand. Send support immediately, fully armed. Remember to disguise them as police; there are a lot of civilians around here."
Hearing Lin Tuyuan on the phone, the bad feeling in Li Chengxi's heart grew stronger.
Seeing Lin Tuyuan hang up, Li Chengxi quickly asked:
"What's going on?"
"It's like this. About twenty minutes ago, we received a spatial shift signal, but the signal was in a surveillance blind spot. We just locked onto its location through an algorithm."
Lin Tuyuan pointed in the direction of Golden Bull Mountain behind the farmhouse inn:
"The signal's location is on Golden Bull Mountain."
"You mean to say, the reason we can't get through to Xue Wenshu and the others' phones is related to a transmigrator?"
"Highly likely."
Qian Sen also explained:
"Not all transmigrators are communicable and friendly. The wilds of otherworlds are home to many monsters, and these monsters might also cross over."
In fact, Section Nine's standard procedure was to lock down the scene immediately upon detecting a spatial shift signal, precisely because it was impossible to determine if the transmigrator was benevolent.
The transmigrators Li Chengxi had encountered were actually different from the normal situation, because both Audel and Viola were pulled over by Li Chengxi, rather than deciding to come on their own or crossing over by chance.
The latter was the most dangerous, especially when the transmigrator was a monster.
The sudden change in environment would put these monsters in a state of alarm and anger, and they would very likely attack anyone who approached.
"You mentioned being fully armed just now. Have you determined the signal's properties?"
Lin Tuyuan had not wanted to say this yet, but since Qian Sen had pointed it out, he could only nod.
"It's a special transfer signal that has been appearing frequently across the country and even the world recently. Brother Qian, your jurisdiction has been lucky not to encounter it. We've dealt with it several times."
Li Chengxi's head was buzzing.
He quickly asked:
"What is it?"
"A Cyclops Zombie. It's an undead creature that a terrifying monster called a Cyclops becomes after death. For some reason, it's been appearing very frequently lately. Small-caliber rifles have almost no effect on it. We usually handle it with rocket launchers or explosives. If the terrain permits, we'll also call in armored vehicles equipped with autocannons."
Is this thing a magical version of an infantry fighting vehicle?
Qian Sen said to Lin Tuyuan:
"Let's stop the technical discussion for now. Miss Audel and Lei Lei should be able to handle it. How long will it take for your people to arrive?"
"Ten minutes at most. We had already deployed personnel near the signal's range when we first received it. They can get here right away."
"Then our current personnel will start searching from the foot of the mountain first. Set up a human-repelling barrier to prevent uninvolved people from going up the mountain."
"I'll call for a helicopter to take off immediately. Hopefully, we can find them before any uninvolved people come into contact with the Cyclops Zombie."
They had come out to have a good time, but ended up running into something like this.
Li Chengxi felt like clawing at the walls.
"You shouldn't go. Stay here."
"Why? Wouldn't it be easier with an extra person?"
"You haven't received professional training, and it might be dangerous on the mountain. I know you're anxious, but you should still stay behind."
In the game, Li Chengxi was the Demon God, the Sky-Upholding Immortal.
But in reality, Li Chengxi's combat power was equivalent to flailing wildly.
Facing a Cyclops Zombie that was immune to small-caliber weapons head-on... there were less unique ways to seek death.
Li Chengxi hesitated for a moment:
"Alright."