The Last Commander of the Red Alert

Since the decision was made, Su Chen allowed them to proceed but reminded them not to forget about the livestream.

This situation was somewhat comical and exasperating. It seemed they had become a show for everyone to watch.

However, no one refused. This was a great opportunity to show their faces in front of everyone. Who would want to miss out on that?

Since the fifth-order Transcendents could only stay outside for a short time, Su Chen took out a small device that Yun Ru had previously developed. This device didn't have any other effects; its sole purpose was to generate a shield with its own oxygen supply, capable of sustaining them for an entire day. What was crucial was that the device itself was only the size of a candy bean.

Each person carried a small box containing this device, and they were fully armed as they were sent to the boundary between the illuminated and shadow sides of the Moon.

Looking from here, one side was bright, while the other side was engulfed in darkness.

"Dear viewers, we are about to enter the other side of the Moon. It is said that this side has never seen any light and is perpetually shrouded in darkness. Our mission this time is to search for extraterrestrial beings on the shadow side," a fifth-order Transcendent spoke to the livestream audience.

Each group consisted of ten people, led by a Seventh Order Transcendent. This ensured that they had sufficient power to resist in case of danger.

As there was no external gravity, their movement would be quite inconvenient. Therefore, Su Chen had Yun Ru develop small gravity devices that were attached to each person, making their movement smoother and more natural.

When they stepped into the shadow side of the Moon, their entire field of view turned pitch black, and they couldn't see anything.

Then, they activated the flashlights on their bodies. These flashlights were also made by Red Alert and immediately illuminated the immediate vicinity. However, areas slightly farther away were still shrouded in darkness.

Under normal circumstances, communication and positioning were difficult to maintain in such an environment. But for Su Chen, this wasn't a problem.

Don't forget, Su Chen's reconnaissance drones were continuously mapping the area from above. In the eyes of the others, it was dark, but in Su Chen's eyes, it was no different from daylight.

Su Chen had also attempted to open up the entire map of the Moon using spy satellites in an instant, but unfortunately, he had failed.

Earth's gravity was too strong and had pulled the spy satellites into Earth's orbit, preventing them from staying around the Moon.

Su Chen could only slowly map the area with reconnaissance drones. As long as he could ensure the safety of these people, that was sufficient.

Just like before, when they first entered the shadow side of the Moon, they were excited. However, as the surroundings hardly changed at all, they began to feel like they were going in circles.

"Captain, we've walked quite a distance, but why does it feel like the surroundings haven't changed much?" a team member couldn't help but complain.

The Captain looked around and furrowed his brows. "I feel the same way. Could it be that the terrain on the Moon's shadow side is all the same?"

It wasn't just their team; the other teams had the same feeling. It was as if they were hitting a wall repeatedly.

At this moment, a scientist watching the livestream explained, "This is because the surrounding light is so dim that it causes your eyes to produce an illusion. It's not that the environment is the same. If you look carefully, you'll definitely notice different areas. Alternatively, you could make a marker."

Seeing this scientist's explanation, several teams decided to mark the ground.

Since it was marking, it naturally needed to be prominent.

For more elaborate marks, they carved rough stone tablets with inscriptions like "We were here."

For simpler ones, they just fired their weapons at rocks, leaving bullet holes. It was a straightforward method.

Afterward, they continued to move forward for a few more hours. Suddenly, one team came to a halt. They had realized that they were seeing the markers they had made earlier!

"Damn it! Captain, we really are going in circles!" a team member exclaimed fearfully.contemporary romance

A massive stone tablet appeared before them. It was the very one they had made a few hours ago, complete with their names still carved on it.

After that, other teams, one after another, saw their own markers from earlier. A feeling of fear slowly crept into their hearts.

Only Su Chen realized that something was amiss. According to the direction shown by the reconnaissance drones, they hadn't been going in circles. So why were they encountering the markers they left behind?

Witnessing this scene were not only Su Chen and his several superhuman subordinates.

Yun Ru was the first to speak, "Commander, this definitely isn't just some simple illusion. It seems like there's something wrong with the space in there, like a spatial distortion."

"Put it simply."

"In simpler terms, they initially walked from point A to point B. However, due to the overlapping of two different spaces, point A's location overlapped with point B. So when they arrived at point B, they saw what was actually at point A. In essence, they were still at point B. This is called spatial distortion."

Su Chen was at a loss for words. If you didn't explain, it would be fine. But explaining it like this just confused me even more.

"What's the solution?"

"Very simple. Just ignore it and keep moving forward."

Their explanation might have been simple, but for the members of those exploration teams, the pressure was immense. After all, the surroundings were already pitch black, and now such eerie scenes were appearing out of nowhere. Even Transcendents would have a hard time dealing with that.

"Te... Captain, you don't think... we've encountered ghosts, do you?" a female team member's voice trembled.

"Impossible. There's no such thing as ghosts in this world... Ah!" Just as the Captain was about to dismiss it, his eyes seemed to catch something, but it vanished in an instant, causing him to shout in fright.

In this environment, emitting such a chilling scream was truly terrifying.

The other team members, who hadn't felt anything initially, were startled by the Captain's sudden scream.

"Captain, what's wrong with you? Don't you know that scaring people can lead to their death?" one team member grumbled irritably.

"No, I saw someone over there just now. They disappeared all of a sudden."

As soon as he said that, a chill seemed to run down everyone's spines, and they started breaking out in cold sweat.

The Captain was a Seventh Order Transcendent. His eyes were undoubtedly fine. If he said he saw something, then it was real.

It wasn't just this team that experienced something strange. The other exploration teams encountered similar situations. Even some viewers in the livestream chat were adamantly claiming that they had seen a figure disappear suddenly.

"Something's not right here. Everyone, gather together. Back to back, take out your weapons, and count the number of people!"

One, two, three... they kept counting until they reached ten. Just as the Captain thought they should stop, a faint voice suddenly sounded, "Eleven."

Hiss!

Everyone was stunned. They clearly had only ten people. Where did the eleventh person come from? (To be continued...)

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