Doomsday Code

Chapter 919: Leaving the Fortress

"The six of you plus those two, the eight of you will come with me on a patrol mission later. This time we're going to the far north abyss to contact the savage beastmen there and see if they've already lost control of the abyss."

Kui Niu's words came without any preamble. Chen Cheng thought the six people who had been chosen at the last minute would be frightened or confused. However, the six of them accepted the order without asking any questions about the reason for the mission.

Clearly, they were the true elite. Only truly elite soldiers don't ask why; they simply carry out the orders given by their commander.

"Alright, you six go back and prepare yourselves. We'll be leaving the city together soon."

"Commander, we have nothing to prepare."

One of the six men clasped his hands in a fist salute and spoke.

The six of them were all wearing captain's armor, along with a weapon at their waist and a somewhat worn-out storage bag.

Kui Niu merely glanced at him, then looked at the other five and said:

"Don't you have anything to prepare?"

Clearly, the preparations Kui Niu mentioned weren't about supplies or weapons, but rather about informing their families that they were leaving the city alone and heading to the territory of the orcs.

Putting aside the hardships along the way, once they arrived in the territory of the orcs, the royal families there had no goodwill towards humans, and many of them even wanted to kill all humans.

So what Kui Niu meant by "preparation" was actually asking them to go back and give their last words.

The remaining five also bowed in return:

There's nothing to prepare.

At this moment, Kui Niu felt like a bull on the verge of exploding in rage; its breathing became very strong, and then it grunted:

"Don't say I didn't give you a chance later. Let's go."

Then, the bull swept Chen Cheng and the other eight people away towards the foot of the Great Wall.

Although the camp was also built at its feet, it was still some distance from the Great Wall. When Chen Cheng flew closer, he saw that the area at the foot of the Great Wall was not a flat ice field, but rather a place with undulating terrain resembling high platforms.

However, many of these platforms were already broken by this time.

On some well-preserved high platforms, one can see clear magic array patterns, and many people are maintaining these patterns, conducting research and care on them.

Meanwhile, the magic arrays here are frequently activated, and the Great Wall troops moving back and forth use the array patterns on these high platforms for rapid relocation.

Kui Niu led the eight of them to land on the high platform. After they were settled, Chen Cheng saw a stone carving in front of him, which read "Great Wall 0568 Company".

Clearly, Chen Cheng's guess was correct; this Great Wall was indeed moved from the vast desert by Thorn Flower using some unknown means.

Seeing Chen Cheng staring at the words on the paper, Kui Niu snorted and said:

"This thing must have been left over from the ancient civilization period. Our Great Wall Army is also because of the Great Wall Army sequence marked on it."

The other six were curious, wondering why Kui Niu was saying these things to the junior officer of the Great Wall Army in front of him.

Chen Cheng looked at the serial number on it and then asked:

"Have you thought about opening it, or if you do open it, do you think you can use what's inside?"

Chen Cheng's words were vague and ambiguous, but Kui Niu, as a high-ranking officer in the Great Wall Army, certainly understood the meaning behind them.

"It's not like that. A lot of things are ruined. It's just an empty shell. Otherwise, the Great Wall Army wouldn't have been stationed here for a thousand years."

Kui Niu wasn't surprised that Chen Cheng knew about the inside of the Great Wall. Perhaps he thought Chen Cheng had royal lineage and that's why he knew. He simply told Chen Cheng what he knew.

Kui Niu's answer was not unexpected by Chen Cheng. In fact, he had already thought of it when he entered the broken Great Wall ruins in the vast desert and saw that it was empty.

Perhaps the truly useful things were either destroyed by those ancient people, or they were collected by them beneath that ruin.

The one guarding below is a god. This is only the third level he went down. Who knows what other ghosts are guarding below?

So Chen Cheng was just asking on a whim. Perhaps those people from the ancient civilization left in a hurry, just like the ruins of the Nanmu Forest back then, and left behind a lot of things.

At this point, Chen Cheng's understanding of this world was still somewhat vague. However, he could sense that the development of this world seemed to be deeply influenced by the ancient civilization that had been destroyed, especially in terms of religious beliefs.

The thought of being tricked by Squidward and inexplicably completing a godhood mission, becoming the first truly god-like being in recorded history, sent a chill down Chen Cheng's spine.

Although everyone says they want to be the first to try something new, when faced with something unknown, the first person to try it is more likely to get pinched by the crab.

Especially when such a plump crab has been sitting here for a long time, and many people who are more capable and outstanding than you haven't been able to eat it, it can only mean that there must be a deadly poison behind this delicious crab dish.

However, Chen Cheng, the first to try this approach, didn't know when the poison behind it would take effect.

The Great Wall Army's array pattern master, who was maintaining the magic array, stepped forward and nodded, saying:

"General, the magic array is ready."

Kui Niu reached out and patted Chen Cheng on the shoulder, then looked at the others and said:

"You have one last chance. Go back and confess what you need to confess. Even if you go back now, I, Old Niu, won't laugh at you."

Seeing that no one wanted to go back and explain, Kui Niu nodded to the array master maintaining the magic array and said:

"Then, Master, you can start it up. By the way, don't send us into the enemy's lair."

The array master ignored Kui Niu's words and quickly activated the array. Instantly, Chen Cheng and his group of nine people exploded and disappeared like a cloud of light.

Once the teleportation was complete, the array master immediately showed a look of regret on his face, and then said to his assistant:

"My darling! They've been put on the market. This platform is shut down today. Let them go to another platform."

The teleportation array here is fine for ordinary people, but to teleport a Kui Niu, especially over a long distance, it puts a huge strain on the teleportation array.

Especially with the addition of Chen Cheng, a guy who is neither human nor god, the burden on the magic array became even heavier.

At that moment, five hundred miles outside the Great Wall, a magnificent golden flower suddenly burst open amidst a blizzard on a snow-covered mountain, and then Kui Niu and his group of nine suddenly appeared there.