Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 828

Chapter 828: Chapter 272: The Mystery of the Starship, Yu Yong’s Freedom! (Part 2)

“No, it can’t be the Starship, no one could have stepped onto it…”

Wow, this level 4 researcher who defected from Firewood really knows deeper secrets!

Cheng Ye felt a thrill in his heart and quickly asked, “What is the Starship?”

But Yu Yong just sat on the ground in a daze, repeatedly murmuring the word “Starship,” as if his soul had been sucked away.

Was this guy brainwashed?

Cheng Ye frowned slightly, but luckily in the next second, the cooperation degree on the data panel finally jumped past the 10% threshold, directly rising to 17%!

He finally wouldn’t have to slowly inquire these key pieces of information here; he could directly look at what he wanted to see.

Cheng Ye breathed a sigh of relief and immediately murmured in his heart:

“Search intelligence, direction: related to Starship!”

Before driving the truck into the Inner City, he had charged it up to 100%. At this moment, 25% charging value was consumed instantly, and the surrounding light suddenly dimmed.

The familiar perspective drift appeared, everything around him shattered into primitive pixels, starting to reconstruct.

As the scene gradually formed, Cheng Ye looked around, and what appeared before him was actually a wilderness, with broken rocks mixed with snow underfoot and endless snow-capped mountains in the distance.

Moreover, in the formed scene, Yu Yong was not alone but was following an entire team.

Cheng Ye instinctively froze the frame and counted, unexpectedly there were as many as twenty-eight people in the team.

Everyone was dressed in closed gear similar to space suits, stepping up the snowy mountain, seemingly targeting a secret location at the summit.

Wait…

As the distant scene fully formed, despite the rough picture quality like a poor game texture, Cheng Ye still recognized the landmark at first sight and matched it in his memory.

This place turned out to be… the Divine Mountain, Mount Everest?!

The towering snow-capped mountain stood before him, didn’t that mean Yu Yong’s team was climbing the Divine Mountain?

Cheng Ye was astonished, scanning around with his vision, quickly discovering valuable information.

On the equipment chest worn by Yu Yong, there was a display screen lit up.

The upper part should be various life information, but the status data in the lower part made his pupils constrict.

[Altitude 11,937 meters, oxygen concentration 3.1%, environment temperature -89°C]

What?

Has Mount Everest’s height broken through twelve thousand meters?

No, this isn’t the end.

Following Yu Yong’s gaze upward, the end of the snowy mountain was still invisible; had the Extraordinary of the previous era gone so mad as to keep increasing the height of this mountain, even piling it into outer space?

From the three data lines continuing downward, there was a line of flashing yellow warning.

[Distortion index 0.27, about to exceed the safe threshold]

“Distortion?”

Cheng Ye was stunned for a few seconds, pressed the play button, and the picture continued to advance.

Soon, he understood the meaning of “distortion,” as the climbing team ascended, everyone bizarrely moved like a game dropping packets, clearly stepping forward, only to twitch back to the original place in the next second.

Every step had to be repeated three times, five times, even ten times, to barely move forward, leaving a faint afterimage, as if light in the extremely cold high altitude lost its linear propagation characteristic.

More shocking was the sight of a few sharply edged ice peaks on the distant snow slope slowly “flowing.”

The edge of the snow-capped mountain slightly deformed like melting wax oil, then instantly restored, as if a visual illusion triggered by folded space-time.

“This…”

Such a scene that overturned understanding rendered Cheng Ye speechless for a moment.

He simply locked the perspective on Yu Yong, heading to the mountaintop with the team.

As per previous intelligence search patterns, key clues would never appear only at the summit.

Sure enough, two minutes later, when the team crossed the twelve thousand meters boundary, the distortion index on the display panel suddenly jumped to 0.3!

The next moment, all team members appeared as if paused, and the snowy mountain disappeared without a trace.

The extreme cold, storm, chaotic space-time, light afterimage, all abnormalities faded away.

Replaced by a green staircase leading to the end of the sky, as if a tender sprout freshly drawn out, exuding gentle micro-light.

The staircase was about three meters wide, each step fifty centimeters long.

The end of the staircase was not visible, but ahead was a huge platform, with hundreds of rooms of varying sizes neatly arranged, countless silhouettes busying through them, evidently a hidden scientific base established at high altitude.

Arrived here, the previous distortion effects were completely isolated, and even the air became stable.

At the entrance to the platform, a group of people had long been waiting, Yu Yong standing at the rear of the group, evidently not a core member.

At the forefront of the group stood a middle-aged man with graying hair.

“Minister Zhang, thanks for your hard work,” the greeter similarly gray-haired, reached out to shake hands tightly with him.

“Not hard at all, what is our effort compared to this,” Minister Zhang smiled, waved his hand in eagerness, “Old Shi, another year has passed, is there any new progress in the Starship research?”

“None,” Old Shi shook his head arduously, speaking heavily, “We still have not gained the qualification to step onto the staircase, let alone approach the Starship itself. However, we’ve conducted some preliminary analysis on the materials forming the staircase, which might offer new research directions.”

Visibly, Minister Zhang’s complexion changed subtly, a trace of grimness flashed, “The distortion index is about to break the safety value, we don’t have much time left…”

As soon as the words fell, space shattered instantly.

Cheng Ye hadn’t yet recovered his senses, when his vision was pulled back to the containment room, Yu Yong still sitting dazedly on the ground, repeatedly murmuring the word “Starship.”

“Could the end of that green staircase be… the Starship?”

Cheng Ye was dumbfounded and lost, unconsciously replaying the intelligence once more.