Xue Bi had pulled Wei Tianyang away from the tent at that ti, and it wasn’t until the transparent passage was completely sealed that they took off their headsets and glasses.
"Look, that’s how bad things are," Xue Bi said.
Wei Tianyang didn’t commit to a stance, replying instead, "It looks like they are indeed very normal, so normal it’s a bit too much."
The prostitute’s story was identical to that of civilians detained illegally by the governnt.
"Right, you said their personalities have been replaced by the sa one, but the three people just now clearly each had their own personality, what’s going on?" Wei Tianyang asked again.
"This is the terrifying part—they can act," Xue Bi shook her head.
Wei Tianyang looked into her eyes for a few seconds without speaking, assessing whether he should trust the Fogen Governnt.
Good or bad, the mont those civilians might have no issues...
Wei Tianyang couldn’t rule out this possibility.
"I know what you are doubting, but we won’t deceive you. You can see for yourself once you go in. President Fogen has given you the authorization to open fire, so it’s up to you to decide what to do; we won’t intervene," Xue Bi said.
Wei Tianyang said, "I hope this ends well. Killing is not my pasti."
The two left the dical tent, and the sky behind Wei Tianyang had completely darkened, the evening glow before him like a furnace about to extinguish, leaving only the last hint of dark red at the horizon, dividing the world into two.
Yin Country’s accompanying team was set up in a corner of the camp, consisting of three temporary tents as their operational base; this included six communication specialists and a dical team of twelve, who were monitoring Wei Tianyang’s vital signs and physiological data at all tis.
Before setting off, Wei Tianyang and Giovanni had watched the mission briefing in the command tent, staying in the capital and paying attention to the operation through remote video.
He had three missions.
The first mission was to find any survivors in the city who had not been infected yet, ensure their safety, and guide them to the edge of the quarantine zone.
The second task was to locate the source of the infection and completely eliminate it.
The third was to find the "Heart Whisperer," render her unconscious, and bring her back.
Wei Tianyang had no objections to the missions but sensed that this mission might not be as straightforward as Yixu’s, particularly since he had his own calculations to make.
After confirming the tasks, Giovanni took him to the military equipnt tent.
The Libitelli Military had provided a full set of Special Forces gear for this operation.
Wei Tianyang’s primary weapon was a custo version ICR carbine, using 5.56 caliber subsonic bullets, a 35-round transparent magazine, and it was linked to an AR targeting system that could display the reticle directly in AR glasses and use the 20x optical zoom lens on the right side of the glasses for high magnification aiming.
His attire included a deep blue one-piece special forces uniform, a lightweight ballistic vest with quick-attach buckles, three spare rifle magazine slots at the front, an ammunition recycling bag on his right hip, and a CQB combat knife sheath on the left chest.
The boots were waterproof and sound-absorbing and could also insulate against fire, though they were not exactly lightweight; his backpack was a black 5.11RUSH series 24-hour assault pack, equipped with two additional folding headphones, a 50,000mAh PD90w fast-charging power bank, a small folding wing drone, a blackcurrant custom military-spec 8-inch tablet, a box of loose spare rifle bullets, 120 rounds, military rations and water for 48 hours of nutritional needs for the human body, as well as an electromagnetic launching and jamming device integrated with the backpack, controllable by smartphone.
Wei Tianyang had neither requested a pistol nor a dagger, as those were rely encumbrances to him; even the rifle was sowhat pointless, since he already had one in his right arm, but that was a trump card he kept hidden, not wishing to discuss it widely.
Ideally, he should have also worn a military helt fitted with a communications antenna, night vision goggles, etc., but he had refused it too, for most of the ti, even the bulletproof vest he was wearing might not have any practical use.
Wei Tianyang had clashed with the Superpower Special Departnt a few tis and knew well that against that level of attack, no normal gear would help, only by pre-empting could he have a chance to survive.
As for attacks from ordinary people?
When he had single-handedly fought through Chicken Snake Country, neither bullets nor shells had ever hard him; he was confident that ordinary people wouldn’t even get the chance to strike at him, and these equipnt pieces were just extra weight.
After gearing up, Wei Tianyang conducted a communications test with the team, then left the camp, passed through the quarantine zone, and walked alone toward the highway leading to Lusimin City under the gaze of searchlights.
The searchlight flickered once and could no longer find his figure.
Wei Tianyang had entered objective reality, now also known as Shadow World, where everything was bathed in crimson without a distinction between day and night. In this dinsion, the urban skyscrapers of Lusimin City ahead seed like giant trees abruptly rising from the red earth.
The Heart Whisperer could monitor human thoughts over a wide area, essentially functioning as an all-around radar. Moreover, since he was unsure of her current location, he had to sever communications right from the start to keep his mind as free of thoughts as possible.
Silent and vacant, Wei Tianyang walked past the city advertisent billboards by the highway.
The billboards proclaid, "Welco to Lusimin, ho of the best wine in all of Libitelli," while a protected, high-transparency glass-encased LCD screen cyclically displayed a 6-second advertisent featuring an elderly man in a black suit elegantly tasting red wine, with a large ’1997’ etched on the bottle beside him.
The city streets weren’t empty, sparse holess people wandered the streets, all shops were shut, windows in the buildings along the roadside were broken in spots, and several pickup trucks with bullet holes were strewn across the middle of the road.
Upon noticing the holess were not shadows but physical entities, Wei Tianyang shifted out of custor mode to continue observing, and as soon as he shifted out, his view suddenly darkened as the night had completely fallen.
He temporarily took off his VR glasses and put on military night vision goggles to clearly see the figures of those few holess.
Were they the deceased? Only the dead could display as physical entities in both objective and subjective realities.
Wei Tianyang thought for a mont, took off the night vision goggles, put on the headphones and VR glasses, and approached them straightforwardly.
In the upper right corner of the glasses, a communication icon appeared, and Giovanni entered the channel, saying, "Your communication was just cut off, and you disappeared too! We thought sothing had happened to you!"
"Quiet, keep it down, don’t panic," Wei Tianyang said.
His voice attracted those few holess people, who then looked toward him.
"Hey," Wei Tianyang took the initiative to greet them, assuming these "Phase Three patients" would rush to bewitch him, but they ignored him.
"I want to ask, have you seen this person?" Wei Tianyang said, pulling up a photo of the Heart Whisperer on his phone and showing it to them.
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