78 Foreign Character on the High Wall

There appeared to be a dark tunnel inside the tree hole. Gu Jun moved ahead and felt himself being swallowed up, surrounded, and buried by darkness…

He did not feel anything off about his physical body, and he had a good handle of his consciousness. It was why he could notice the enveloping silence; even the sound of his steps had disappeared. Slowly, a barely noticeable white light appeared in his eyes. He moved toward in that direction as if hypnotized by it. The low sound of conversation shattered the silence. Gu Jun suddenly found himself out of the tunnel. He saw Captain Xue and the other Demon Hunters standing before him, and their conversation became much clearer.

“Ah Jun, are you okay?” Xue Ba’s voice travelled out from Gu Jun’s communicator. Wireless communication could be used normally in this space.

“I’m fine,” Gu Jun answered.

Xue Ba nodded at him and then reported back to the other world. “Command, the Demon Hunters have arrived at the space with the high walls. Everyone is in perfect condition. We are planning to split into teams. Team A will head toward the wall with the foreign characters while Team B will stay behind to guard the tunnel. Over.”

Their message could be sent out, but they could not receive the reply from outside, so this was a one-way communication.

Everyone could hear that. Lou Xiaoning grumbled with dissatisfaction, “Uncle Dan, you are our doctor! So, how come you are so insistent on creating a horrifying atmosphere for us? Are you that afraid of retirement? You sure are one cunning old coot.”

The group laughed.

“Fine, fine. How about I tell a joke to ease the tension then?” Uncle Dan chuckled before he launched into a joke, a sleazy one at that. This made everyone laugh even harder. Even Gu Jun was tickled. This was one interesting middle-aged man. Xue Ba laughed the loudest. Uncle Dan making lewd jokes was a fixture among the Demon Hunters, and reality had proven that it was effective at lowering their tension.

The journey of 1,037 meters was not that long. After ten minutes of walking, they reached the front of the wall. They were about twenty steps away now. Before that, Gu Jun had already seen the majesty of this wall. It was constructed from blocks of large gray stone slabs, and there was barely a gap between the slabs. The construction work was truly impressive. It was so tall that the top could not be seen as it curved down both sides. After standing there for who knew how long, there was still no sign of disrepair on the wall. The scale and size of this circular wall was far beyond any ancient building human beings had created. Like the dirt underneath their feet, the geologists could not tell what kind of stone this was, and they had no idea why every stone slab had some kind of special pattern on it.

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When the group reached under the wall, Xue Ba pointed and said, “Ah Jun, the row of foreign characters is over there.”

“I will go take a look.” Gu Jun continued to move. Xue Ba and Lou Xiaoning guarded beside him. When he was ten steps away, Gu Jun could already see the foreign characters on the wall. The dark color and messy handwriting… they appeared to be carved on the large stone at the most bottom layer of the wall. He took a few more steps forward. He focused his eyes, and he could sense the language wiggling, coming to life before him.

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‘That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die,’ Gu Jun mumbled this in his heart. He raised his head to try to look up the wall, and a sense of existential anxiety rose in his heart.

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“Ah Jun, can you understand this?” Xue Ba asked, the anticipation and urgency clear in his voice. Lou Xiaoning and Uncle Dan were listening in as well.