Chapter 1301 - 1301 Temporary Inquiry
1301 Temporary Inquiry
His vision flickered a few times before finally returning to stable light.
However, this light was slightly different from the light brought about by ordinary starlight. The warmth contained in the light and the constant strength of the light revealed that the light was clearly from an artificial light source.
Sensing this light, Nkosi let out a long breath.
He was finally back!
Along the way, he reminded Chu Nan carefully. He had always been worried that another similar huge worm and monster similar to it would suddenly appear and attack him. He did not dare to stop at all and kept moving forward at full speed. As a result, the journey back from the 13th floor was much faster than following Chu Nan and Angie Prairie into the Endless Abyss. He only used less than half a day to return to the surface of the first level.
Unlike the transmission location from top to bottom, the exit of the first level that returned from the depths of the Endless Abyss was set up with a camp that was not huge, but it looked very formal and orderly. Not only could he see all kinds of adventurers, but he could also see fully armed soldiers of the Declan Empire coming and going everywhere.
As soon as Nkosi appeared, he was stopped by two soldiers.
“Go undergo quarantine immediately. Hurry!”
The tone of the two soldiers was cold and very bad, filled with condescension. However, Nkosi did not feel any disgust or discomfort. He only nodded obediently and automatically lined up behind the group of people waiting for quarantine.
The so-called quarantine was specially made by the Declan Empire’s military for adventurers like them who had returned from exploring the Endless Abyss. Every adventurer who returned after entering the Endless Abyss had to undergo quarantine, or they would be ruthlessly attacked by the Declan Empire’s military.
Almost no one understood why the Declan Empire did this, but this was a hard rule of the Declan Empire, so no one dared to not comply. Those who did not comply had already become dust in the universe outside the Endless Abyss.
In the past, Nkosi had also hated being forced to undergo this quarantine. However, now that he had just experienced a life-and-death escape, being forced to participate in this quarantine made him feel at ease.
The team did not move slowly. Before long, it was Nkosi’s turn.
Although he had not come to the Endless Abyss to explore for a long time, Nkosi was very familiar with the routine here. After walking to the soldier in charge of quarantine, he did not need to say anything. He directly raised his arm and did not forget to instruct.
“Don’t smoke too much. I’m dizzy.”
The soldier ignored him. He picked up a needle-like thing in his hand and stabbed it into his arm.
According to the rules, the person in charge of quarantine should draw a little of his blood for testing, as if he wanted to rely on the test results to test something.
In this aspect, the official secrecy of the Declan Empire was very strict, so Nkosi did not know what he wanted to do.
“Wait.” Just as the needle was about to pierce into Nkosi, a voice suddenly sounded beside him.
The soldier stopped in his tracks. Nkosi and the few people in the line behind him looked in the direction of the voice in surprise and discovered that the person who spoke actually had the obvious symbol of an officer of the Declan Empire hanging on his chest. Moreover, the level did not look low.
The officer sized up Nkosi and glanced at the rows of information on the virtual screen lit up by the personal terminal on his wrist. He looked at it and asked, “From the transmission point you passed through previously, you continuously returned from the teleportation door on the 13th floor of the E37 District?”
Nkosi frowned.
What he found strange was why the other party cared about this.
“Yes, I just returned from there.” Nkosi nodded and admitted frankly.
“Why did you keep coming back? Did you encounter anything there?” the officer asked again, his tone serious.
Nkosi frowned.
Of course, it was not a problem to cooperate with the quarantine, but the other party’s question was too invasive to his personal privacy.
However, he thought for a moment and knew that resisting under such circumstances was not beneficial at all. It would only make him suffer a loss. He paused for a moment and replied, “I encountered an especially powerful monster on the 13th floor and finally escaped. Of course, I’m unwilling to stay in this damned place anymore.”
“What monster is it?”
“I don’t know. This is the first time I’ve seen such a monster.”
“Describe it.” The officer still asked reluctantly.
Nkosi sighed secretly. He knew that it would probably not be so easy to escape today. Moreover, on second thought, the three huge worms he had encountered today were indeed a little strange. If he reported it like this, it could more or less remind the other adventurers and be considered a good thing. He did not resist and explained in detail.
Hearing Nkosi’s description, the other adventurers in the line behind him did not mind, but the officer’s expression became more and more serious.
After hearing this, the officer gestured for Nkosi to wait and went to the side to open his personal terminal. It seemed that he had gone to communicate with someone remotely.
After a while, he came over and said to Nkosi with a straight face, “Come with us and tell us in detail the situation you encountered.”
Nkosi knew very well that he could not leave. He could only obediently follow behind the officer and board a small spaceship behind the camp. Soon, he flew out of the asteroid belt where the Endless Abyss was and entered the vast space.
After about half an hour of cosmic travel, the small spaceship stopped beside a huge space base.
Nkosi was even more surprised.
It was not a secret that the Declan Empire had set up a huge space military base near the Endless Abyss, but there were very few people who could personally enter this base or even approach it. There was no need to think about a person like him who did not have a special background.
He did not expect that he would come here for a strange reason.
After entering the base, Nkosi followed a silent officer through the base in a small floating lock car for a while before finally stopping in front of a building that looked much larger.
After entering this building, what entered his vision was soldiers wearing the symbol of a high-level officer of the Declan Empire. It was enough to show that this must be the most important place in this base.
Nkosi could not help but feel nervous.
He was only an ordinary person who was especially interested in the research of martial technique theory. Be it strength or background, he could only be considered ordinary. Why was he deliberately called to such an important place?
Could it be just because of the few large worms he had encountered on the 13th floor of E37?
After turning through a few passageways, his vision suddenly became clear, and a huge hall appeared in front of him.
The hall was bustling with people, but Nkosi immediately cast his gaze on a platform at the back of the hall.
Not only was this platform clearly higher than other places, but it was also because of the two people standing on it.
He did not know the young person on the left, but the calm and rough-looking middle-aged man on the right with a natural noble temperament was almost everyone in the Declan Empire.
This was because he was Prince Lekas!