Chapter 182: Chapter 128: Salvation Army Main Force, Exploration of the Fourth Layer (Part 3)

At the same time, the temperature here also suddenly dropped by several degrees.

It’s now even less than ten degrees!

Inside the sealed battle armor, everyone’s breath would create vapor. Fortunately, the respirator masks were designed with separate compartments for the nose and mouth.

So the exhaled liquid vapor did not condense into mist inside the Level 3 helmet’s visor.

Instead, a thin layer of water droplets formed on the outside.

Everyone wiped it clean and began their search.

Not long after, as Zheng Yan Ying halted, the people behind her saw a five-meter-long large wolf carcass lying on the ground not far away.

For a moment, everyone’s breathing became heavy, their inner excitement disrupting their formation.

Zheng Yan Ying quickly raised her hand, signaling everyone to remain calm, to avoid panic.

Emotional excitement is often the most dangerous moment.

The whispers in one’s head can amplify, and letting down one’s guard could allow nearby lurking mutants a chance to exploit.

Everyone held their breath, and under Zheng Yan Ying’s reminder, soon regained composure, maintaining a state of alert.

As they approached this ancient large wolf carcass, Zheng Yan Ying and Lin Feng squatted down to examine the corpse.

The other four stood at four positions, responsible for vigilance.

Zheng Yan Ying drew a sharp dagger from her thigh and sliced open the wolf’s side belly.

Despite its seemingly thick fur and sturdy build, it was thin as a cicada’s wing, and a light touch caused it to break apart.

Lin Feng frowned slightly, watching Zheng Yan Ying open up the wolf’s interior, finding it empty with no internal organs or flesh visible…

Actually, it made sense, after all these millennia, this mutated Desert Wolf, only six meters in size, at most had the early Tier One strength when it was alive.

The Tier One cells of its muscle tissue couldn’t last without food or drink and remain dormant until now.

After all, the hibernation pods were all destroyed, and the shelter could not possibly operate as it once did.

So, these bodies either decayed and perished, or, affected by genetic radiation, became the raw material for the formation of mutants in the underground ruins.

Most likely, it was the latter.

Yet Zheng Yan Ying did not stop her actions.

After sifting through the shattered wolf ribs and searching, she successfully found a blood-colored crystal, similar to a Red Crystal.

About the size of a fingernail, it was semi-transparent and refracted an eerie red light under illumination.

Zheng Yan Ying carefully collected it and placed it in a small pouch on her outer belt.

Lin Feng observed the entire process, his eyes slightly narrowed.

He roughly guessed that this might be a crystal formed by the condensation of Life Source Material within the Desert Wolf’s body.

Due to the heavy dangers within the ruins and the inadequate explanation, Zheng Yan Ying hushed, indicating to address any issues once back above.

Lin Feng nodded slightly, and the two of them got up, continuing to lead the team forward.

Along the way, they saw the hibernation warehouse, where hundreds to thousands of hibernation pods were wantonly destroyed.

Apart from the dried blood stains left behind, the ground was full of white bones, and broken skulls with bite marks.

Seeing this scene, Lin Feng could imagine the past, the time when thousands of hungry Desert Wolves stormed into the shelter, hunting and devouring the recently awakened and many unawakened survivors.

Just in this hibernation warehouse alone, thousands of hibernation pods were violently destroyed, and so many survivors hadn’t even had the chance to wake before becoming wolf prey…

The brutality of the scene, even after thousands of years, could still be glimpsed through the present disorder and ruinous remnants.

But just at this moment, as everyone left behind the wolf carcass, after only a few steps, a murmuring whisper, following the team’s deeper venture into the hibernation warehouse district, suddenly intensified!

Intense spiritual pollution, entwining with the fierce battles of the past, exploded in everyone’s minds!

Unprepared, various illusions even surfaced in their minds.

“Get closer!”

Zheng Yan Ying promptly called out in a low voice and swung the two-meter-long iron hammer in her hand, spinning it in the air.

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