87 Red Door Ahead
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“I am telling the truth.” Gu Jun’s brows folded together. It did not feel good having a gun pointed at him. “I do not know anything else about the rest.”
Xue Ba finally nodded as he came to a decision. “Xiaoning, put the gun down. I believe Ah Jun. It’s just a hunch I have, and you know I’ve always trusted my hunch.”
“Okay.” Lou Xiaoning instantly lowered the rifle and pulled the safety back on. But she kept an eye on Gu Jun’s micro-expressions. His first reaction was relief, followed by a suppressed calmness as he tried to decipher her motive. Finally, it culminated in annoyance, one that grew as time went by. That was a passable reaction. It did not look like it was rehearsed, nor were they telling signs of a sociopath. But she made a note to continue watching him.
“Actually, I quite admire you.” Lou Xiaoning voluntarily walked over and extended her hand as an olive branch. “That was just standard procedure. Please accept my apology.”
1
“You are one annoying individual,” Gu Jun grumbled as he took Lou Xiaoning’s handshake. “Why didn’t Captain Xue punish you for your transgression?”
“Cough…” Captain Xue, who was brought under the spotlight, coughed, and then he said seriously, “Ah Jun, we all know you were once a Spirit Child cultivated by Lai Sheng Company, and you have to remember the crisis that happened with the Action Department earlier. Like I said before, Xiaoning would have done the same if I have reacted the way you did.”
Xue Ba then turned to address the rest of the team. “But since we have chosen to put our trust in Gu Jun, push any suspicion out of your minds. Understood?”
With the explanation provided by Gu Jun and with their personal experience with that mysterious power, the deeper they went, the more they agreed with Gu Jun. The stone tunnel was alive, and the dark red lines were the proof of its energy of life. It felt like they were travelling down the stomach of a giant beast.
After they had gone down for two hundred steps, nothing changed. It was still the same after five hundred steps. One thousand steps, and everything remained the same. Seven hours later, the thousandth step was just several meters away. Every step was one meter wide and half a meter tall, so in other words, they were almost ten thousand meters away from the entrance and five thousand meters away from the surface. Bizarrely, the oxygen density in the air remained the same. But Gu Jun was suddenly struck by a feeling; there was going to be light soon. He did not share that information lest the suspicion fell back on him. After the Demon Hunters moved for a while, everyone saw what he felt.
“There’s light!”
“I believe I see light ahead.”
“Be careful. Be ready for battle!” Xue Ba ordered. They slowed down. Their knees were numb and pained from all the stairs. The height of the stairs placed great pressure on their knees. Lou Xiaoning and the other marksmen aimed their guns forward as they pushed forward. Soon, they saw the stone wall at the end of the ten thousandth step. At the very bottom, there was a red door, and two strangely-shaped oil lamps hung by the door. The faded yellow light radiated from inside the lamps. They were soft and warm, as if welcoming them.
Gu Jun’s heart tightened. This intricate design, the arresting carving on the lamps… he had seen similar designs in the underground room illusion before.
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Underground room? Well, wouldn’t there be an underground room behind this red door?
And this red door, its design and color evoked something in his mind. It was the same red door that he had walked through to enter his sealed memory during his hypnosis session.
Suddenly, Gu Jun was hit by pangs of nausea.
But all he got was a bigger headache. He sighed helplessly. “I am sorry, but the red door has blocked all of my perceptive power.”
“Okay then.” Xue Ba nodded with some disappointment. The team did not have any remote-controlled robots with them, so someone had to go in person to explore the door. Xue Ba came to a standardized decision. Lou Xiaoning, Zhou Yi, Gao Mingpeng, and three other members were heading toward the red door with the intention of storming the room.
The rest watched as the assault unit move forward, tense. Gu Jun also watched closely, but the apprehension in his heart grew stronger and stronger…
“I am telling the truth.” Gu Jun’s brows folded together. It did not feel good having a gun pointed at him. “I do not know anything else about the rest.”
Xue Ba finally nodded as he came to a decision. “Xiaoning, put the gun down. I believe Ah Jun. It’s just a hunch I have, and you know I’ve always trusted my hunch.”
“Okay.” Lou Xiaoning instantly lowered the rifle and pulled the safety back on. But she kept an eye on Gu Jun’s micro-expressions. His first reaction was relief, followed by a suppressed calmness as he tried to decipher her motive. Finally, it culminated in annoyance, one that grew as time went by. That was a passable reaction. It did not look like it was rehearsed, nor were they telling signs of a sociopath. But she made a note to continue watching him.
“Actually, I quite admire you.” Lou Xiaoning voluntarily walked over and extended her hand as an olive branch. “That was just standard procedure. Please accept my apology.”
1
“You are one annoying individual,” Gu Jun grumbled as he took Lou Xiaoning’s handshake. “Why didn’t Captain Xue punish you for your transgression?”
“Cough…” Captain Xue, who was brought under the spotlight, coughed, and then he said seriously, “Ah Jun, we all know you were once a Spirit Child cultivated by Lai Sheng Company, and you have to remember the crisis that happened with the Action Department earlier. Like I said before, Xiaoning would have done the same if I have reacted the way you did.”
Xue Ba then turned to address the rest of the team. “But since we have chosen to put our trust in Gu Jun, push any suspicion out of your minds. Understood?”
With the explanation provided by Gu Jun and with their personal experience with that mysterious power, the deeper they went, the more they agreed with Gu Jun. The stone tunnel was alive, and the dark red lines were the proof of its energy of life. It felt like they were travelling down the stomach of a giant beast.
After they had gone down for two hundred steps, nothing changed. It was still the same after five hundred steps. One thousand steps, and everything remained the same. Seven hours later, the thousandth step was just several meters away. Every step was one meter wide and half a meter tall, so in other words, they were almost ten thousand meters away from the entrance and five thousand meters away from the surface. Bizarrely, the oxygen density in the air remained the same. But Gu Jun was suddenly struck by a feeling; there was going to be light soon. He did not share that information lest the suspicion fell back on him. After the Demon Hunters moved for a while, everyone saw what he felt.
“There’s light!”
“I believe I see light ahead.”
“Be careful. Be ready for battle!” Xue Ba ordered. They slowed down. Their knees were numb and pained from all the stairs. The height of the stairs placed great pressure on their knees. Lou Xiaoning and the other marksmen aimed their guns forward as they pushed forward. Soon, they saw the stone wall at the end of the ten thousandth step. At the very bottom, there was a red door, and two strangely-shaped oil lamps hung by the door. The faded yellow light radiated from inside the lamps. They were soft and warm, as if welcoming them.
Gu Jun’s heart tightened. This intricate design, the arresting carving on the lamps… he had seen similar designs in the underground room illusion before.
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Underground room? Well, wouldn’t there be an underground room behind this red door?
And this red door, its design and color evoked something in his mind. It was the same red door that he had walked through to enter his sealed memory during his hypnosis session.
Suddenly, Gu Jun was hit by pangs of nausea.
But all he got was a bigger headache. He sighed helplessly. “I am sorry, but the red door has blocked all of my perceptive power.”
“Okay then.” Xue Ba nodded with some disappointment. The team did not have any remote-controlled robots with them, so someone had to go in person to explore the door. Xue Ba came to a standardized decision. Lou Xiaoning, Zhou Yi, Gao Mingpeng, and three other members were heading toward the red door with the intention of storming the room.
The rest watched as the assault unit move forward, tense. Gu Jun also watched closely, but the apprehension in his heart grew stronger and stronger…
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