Chapter 900 - 405: The Mysterious Tunnel

Chapter 900: Chapter 405: The Mysterious Tunnel

Gu Ji nodded slightly.

At that moment, Gong Qingyong, Liu Weijun and the others all raised their guns, fingers pre?pressing the triggers as they aimed at the iron door.

Gao Bo gently pulled it outward.

Accompanied by a tooth?grinding creak of friction, everyone gradually saw a cramped passage appear through the gap.

Wu Kang couldn’t help being stunned.

"This is... they dug a tunnel?"

"Did the leader of Shalam take the target hostage and escape through here?"

Gao Bo shone his under?barrel tactical light; the tunnel sloped downward, the surroundings all cracked chunks of dried mud. Though the space was narrow, it extended very deep, with no way to see where it led.

"Watchers, did you see anyone fleeing the village, zzz..."

Gu Ji tried to contact Zhou Yang and Zhao Hua, but no one answered, only bursts of white noise. "If you hear this, respond!"

"It must be the basement interfering with the signal. Wrench, Bolt, go up and take a look!"

"Yes!"

As Gong Qingyong was directing his men.

Gao Bo straightened up, standing at the tunnel mouth. "Why don’t we go in and take a look?"

"Viper!"

Gu Ji tilted his head slightly and signaled Viper with his eyes, then took a Concussion Bomb off his chest rig and gripped it in his hand.

This tunnel was too narrow; once they got into a frontal firefight—

Without a Bulletproof Shield, Gao Bo would be as good as dead.

So he had to let Viper go ahead to warn of danger and be ready to engage the enemy at any moment.

It bared its teeth and hopped, landing in front of Gao Bo’s feet, tongue lolling as it swayed its way into the tunnel.

The others hunched over and followed behind.

Because there was almost no ambient light in the tunnel, the night?vision goggles actually became a burden that narrowed their field of view, so Gu Ji flipped his up.

Not long after they passed the bend, Viper stopped where it was.

Seeing this, he flicked on his tactical light and found that right in front of its paws yawned a pitch?black opening.

Gao Bo crouched, lay down at the edge of the opening and peered inside, looking left and right. "It’s huge in here! Holy shit!!"

Hearing his sudden exclamation, Liu Weijun hurried over, and his face instantly turned pale.

"There are so many bodies down there!"

"What!?"

The words made everyone’s expression change.

Gong Qingyong shone his High-Power Flashlight and saw that beneath the opening a pile of villager corpses had accumulated, all mowed down by bullets.

What surprised him even more was that the space beneath the opening was indeed as Gao Bo had said—terrifyingly large. Not only wide enough to fit a train, but they couldn’t even see the end of it!

"Something’s off. This doesn’t look like something people could dig out..."

"This was cut out with a tunneling machine!"

Gu Ji had just studied mine self?rescue and emergency skills under the [Accident] category, and at a glance recognized the marks of mechanical drilling.

"A tunneling machine?"

Zhuang Feng couldn’t help a gasp when he heard that, muttering as he strung several words together. "Kidnapping, tunnel, explosives, corpses, tunnel..."

"They’re going after the Xia Yi oil mine!!"

Their eyes met; Gu Ji and Zhuang Feng shouted wide?eyed in unison.

"I get it now!"

Gong Qingyong wagged his finger slightly, analyzing word by word:

"Shalam kidnapped Mr. Kang to get the mine shaft blueprints, then found the spot closest to the mine, drove all the villagers underground to dig a tunnel. No wonder there isn’t a single civilian left in the village!"

Gao Bo scratched his helmet, looking completely puzzled.

"But why are they so fixated on the oil mine? Is it because they hate Iran, or because they hate us?"

"Hey! What the hell are you all talking about!"

As everyone was discussing, Miliburn—who hadn’t been able to get a word in—finally couldn’t hold back, stepping forward to cut them off.

But Zhuang Feng had no mind to play interpreter now; he just stood there, head down.

Yes, his whole body was rigid, pupils filled with shock.

There was even a hint of fear!

Gu Ji took all of this in.

His instincts told him that the joint oil mine project between the Xia Kingdom and Iran was absolutely not as simple as it appeared on the surface, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many forces watching it at once!

"Mr. Gong! Mr. Gong! Bad news, Watchpoint says several vehicles in the mountains opposite are heading straight for us!"

"Damn it! Must be enemy reinforcements!"

Gong Qingyong looked at Gu Ji in anger. "We’ve got to get out of here, fast!"

But Gu Ji didn’t answer immediately.

Because right then, lines of game text suddenly floated before his eyes.

[Crisis event detected, entering Reality Glory stage;]

[Locking and loading...]

[Time]: 20:13:53, June 26, 2025

[Location]: Tehran, capital of Iran

[Background]: On the morning of May 30, 2025, the Ministry of Defense of Iran received a strange phone call. The caller claimed to be the seller who had supplied the "Holographic Projection Replicator" to the Ministry of Defense of Brazil, and said he currently possessed a large cache of advanced weapons that would greatly impact not only the Middle East, but the global situation as a whole.

His asking price started at 1 billion US Dollar.

From then on, this shadowy deal drew the attention of countries across the Middle East.

The Israeli cabinet attached great importance to the incident, convening a special meeting and immediately launching Operation "Orchard," deploying their intelligence network.

Sovereign states, extremist organizations, private militias;

Wiretaps, tailing, kidnapping, assassination, satellite reconnaissance...

All sides were drawn into it, intelligence methods emerging one after another, turning this deadly game ever more murky and unpredictable...

As a special police officer of the Xia Kingdom;

How will you choose?

[Crisis Event Start!]

[You have been placed on Shalam’s must?kill list;]

[Shalam reinforcements will arrive at the village in 1 minute 12 seconds...]

[Please make your choice!]

[A. Evacuate immediately;]

[B. Enter the mine tunnel;]