Chapter 383: He is Awakening_1

According to Squad 189's cursory measurements, the diameter of this deep pit was a staggering three hundred kilometers, and it was bottomless as if it could lead to the planet's core.

Wu Xinghai asked Galaxy II, "Didn't we send numerous probes to Venus before? How come such a large hole was never discovered?"

Galaxy II seemed to be consulting the relevant data, taking approximately a second before replying, "No."

Wu Xinghai frowned, "Did this hole appear suddenly, or was it always 'hidden' by Venus?"

The combat staff speculated, "Could this be an invitation from Venus?"

Jiang Yu shook his head, "It looks more like a trap, or rather, a scar!"

Wu Xinghai understood what Jiang Yu meant, "According to the Black Cuboid People's own account, they exacted a heavy toll on Venus.

"Do you mean to say that this huge pit was left by the Black Cuboid People?"

Jiang Yu laughed, "That's a good explanation, except there's no way to verify it now."

Wu Xinghai thought briefly and then ordered Squad 189 to enter the pit for exploration, reasoning that if traces of "Black Square" or battle were discovered inside the hole, then Jiang Yu's speculation would be correct.

The three hundred kilometers in diameter seemed incredibly vast. After traveling inward for over ten minutes, their lights couldn't reach the walls at all.

So Wu Xinghai commanded that J135 fly following the side of the hole's wall.

Meanwhile, Team 16 had successfully unlocked Enterprise's transition chamber and, after entering the warship, they closed the hatch behind them.

After scanning, it was evident that there was a normal atmospheric environment inside the warship, suggesting that there might indeed be survivors.

The interior corridor of the warship was pitch-black. A J135 breached the wall of the corridor forcefully, found the warship's fiber-optic cables, and attempted to connect to the ship's computer.

However, the computer was unresponsive, clearly indicating that Enterprise had lost all power, and the computer had shut down.

But a new question arose: who had sent that distress signal?

Just as the J135 attempting to connect to the computer was about to give up, it suddenly received a weak electronic signal.

It quickly transmitted this signal back to the command center. After Galaxy II's decryption, the electronic signal turned out to be a sentence: "I have been devoured by him, and he is waking up!"

This sentence seemed to grip the hearts of everyone at the command center, giving everyone the sense that there might be a colossal creature capable of devouring people inside the ship.

The exploration had to continue; after all, J135 wasn't afraid of being devoured.

Wu Xinghai ordered to head towards the warship's information center as quickly as possible!

Once there, they would know who had sent the distress signal.

Moving forward, they encountered some carelessly discarded debris in the corridor and even found some bloodstains.

But not a single body was found, let alone survivors.

Just as Team 16 was about to reach the information center of the warship, they were suddenly blocked by a wall of earth.

Why would there be a wall inside a warship?

Wu Xinghai asked Team 16 to take a sample for identification. It was indeed an earth wall, a hard-packed, golden-yellow soil manifesting in the metallic corridor of a space warship, which seemed quite out of place.

Just as Wu Xinghai was about to issue an order to drill through the wall, it appeared to tremble all of a sudden.

This slight trembling was witnessed by many, it wasn't just someone's eyes playing tricks on them.

At that moment, an outlandish thought occurred to everyone: Was the earth wall alive?

It wasn't impossible, as if the entire planet was a living entity, perhaps this earth wall was its skin?

But why would its skin appear inside the Enterprise?

In order not to alert the enemy, Wu Xinghai ordered Team 16 to take a detour.

At that time, Team 18, which was on guard outside, discovered that the "Enterprise" had not crashed onto the Venusian surface as everyone had imagined.

If a warship had crashed onto the surface, there would certainly be some gaps between the ground and the warship, and the soil of Venus would have been radiated out, creating a crater-like impression.

The "Enterprise" fit tightly against the Venusian surface as if it were embedded into the ground.

At that moment, Team 16, which had taken a detour, requested instructions for their next move as another dirt wall had appeared before them.

Wu Xinghai folded his arms and took two steps before issuing the order, "Proceed with drilling!

"All units, be ready to attack at any moment!"

This exploration operation had anticipated the need for drilling, so each squad was equipped with small drilling tools.

When the drilling tools touched the dirt wall, everyone could clearly see that the wall trembled again.

Ultimately, a dirt wall is a dirt wall; under Team 16's drilling tools, it was as fragile as tofu, quickly yielding a hole with a diameter of one meter.

There wasn't the gruesome scene some staff might have expected, just an ordinary dirt wall.

Team 16's J135 filed in one after another, making their way step by step towards the spaceship's information center.

That's when the operations staff reported, "There's a situation with Team 189!"

Looking at Team 189 again, the data showed they were maintaining a certain forward speed, but darkness still lay before them.

By rough estimation, Team 189 had been advancing for over twenty minutes, yet they had not come into contact with the cave walls.

Wu Xinghai asked, "How far have they traveled?"

The operations staff answered, "They have exceeded six hundred kilometers!"

Wu Xinghai then asked, "Has the cave below become more spacious?"

The operations staff said, "Team 189 has been moving in a straight line, but the signal tracking system shows that every time they travel about eighty kilometers, they return to the starting point!"

This caused many operations staff members' hairs to stand on end, including Wu Xinghai's!

Wu Xinghai asked, "Did Team 189 travel about eighty kilometers and then turn back to the starting point?

"Or did they return directly to the starting point after traveling the eighty kilometers?"

The operations staff swallowed hard, "The location tracker shows they returned directly to the starting point."

For a moment, the command room fell silent.

Jiang Yu suddenly smiled and said, "Who dares to be arrogant and complacent now? In the universe, the unknown is the main theme!

"With humanity's modest capability, we're only a match for the bottom-dwellers like the Trisolarans or perhaps bully crippled Venus."

Then he added, "Have Team 189 retreat. If they keep going like this, they'll never find any clues, even if they walk until the end of time."

The operations staff nodded and immediately went to execute the order.

"The information center has been opened!" the communications staff reported!

Everyone turned their attention to Team 16's situation; in the yellow soil tunnel, the team leader of J135 cut through the metal door.

The first thing that came into view was the information center's cabin, filled with lots of yellow soil, and four human bodies buried halfway in the soil!

The state of these four people was strange, as if they hadn't heard the noise of Team 16 breaking through the door, still operating the various instruments in front of them.

Finally, one seemed to hear something and slowly turned his head in the direction of the door, and then everyone saw a skull.