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Chapter 434 Taking Action to Close the Five Bridges Secret Realm (1)

Chapter 434: Chapter 434 Taking Action to Close the Five Bridges Secret Realm (1)

One by one, the reconnaissance squads walked into these transmission ports, sending communication signals back to their camp from different positions and military fortresses.

The camp judged their locations based on the signal distances, and then marked the transmission ports, otherwise even they would find it difficult to distinguish which transmission port corresponded to where.

After this efficient search, the camp discovered that the furthest military fortress was beyond the range they usually paid attention to, a place that definitely required drones for reconnaissance.

People couldn’t help but marvel at how formidable space transmission is as a superpower.

Once the frontline was secure, the mission shifted from combat to battlefield cleanup. The unconscious military officer prisoners remained in the fortress, as there was no place to set up a prisoner camp at the frontline camp, so they temporarily used the fortress.

Ye Nai sold the translation mushrooms to the Commander at the price of fifty points per pound, totaling two hundred pounds.

She didn’t close any of the transmission ports in the warehouse, leaving them as observation subjects to see how long they would last without human interference and whether they would eventually close on their own one day.

The energy on Blue Star is insufficient, and the spores’ decomposition of organic matter to provide energy is slow, not enough to sustain the transmission ports long-term. Thus, the cross-realm portals currently opened by Ye Nai are those opened from the Otherworld and the Secret Realm. There has been no experiment on how long transmission ports that span different distances on Blue Star can self-sustain.

The Commander readily agreed, taking this opportunity to conduct this observation experiment.

Only then did Ye Nai, along with her security team and Camp Commander Lin, open the transmission port and step back into the military camp.

After shaking hands and parting with Camp Commander Lin, Ye Nai once again opened the transmission port and returned to the laboratory, then used the ready transmission port to briefly show her face in the Secret Realm and Beigen Military Fortress, informing everyone she was back.

In the few hours she worked at the border, several days had passed in the Otherworld. The previously chaotic military fortress laboratory now appeared organized.

The solar panels on the city walls have also been put to use, and electric lights and appliances are functioning normally.

Especially in the large square within the fortress, where the big pits originally for placing the transmission platform have all been filled, small sheds have been set up to store various items like decayed wood and dried grass separately.

According to the security team who stayed behind, the academicians had taken their doctoral students into the mountains several times, and the items in the small sheds were raw materials collected as fungus substrates.

Ye Nai then went into the mountains, found a grassy spot with thick humus, and accelerated the growth of closed-cap translation mushrooms all over the ground. She shoveled them up along with the soil and placed them in a basket to bring back for the academicians to collect spores.

As for the remaining tasks, she really couldn’t help much.

She actually wanted to do the work of a junior archivist, after all, to justify her eight thousand yuan monthly salary.

However, no one genuinely let her do this job; all the formal procedures were just for outsiders to see.

According to the two project groups’ academicians, all she needed to do was properly maintain the transmission ports in the laboratory.

Ye Nai thought she had some free time and focused on tending to her radish field, only to find she really didn’t have much time off.

The theater Commander reported the situation.

The Defense Director’s agreed-upon coordination was also finalized.

Both the Purple Capital Secret Realm and the Five Bridges Secret Realm, which no longer had any transmission platforms, were to be closed ahead of schedule.

The Five Bridges Secret Realm was the first on the list.

This Secret Realm lost all its transmission platforms a year ago, and the last time Ye Nai visited, she noticed potential changes within.

The Defense Director received more detailed information during coordination, revealing frequent geological hazards in the Secret Realm over the past year.

There is no evidence linking the current situation in the Five Bridges Secret Realm to the loss of so many stabilizing transmission platforms, but based on the experience with the East Ridge Secret Realm, once closed, the transmission ports can be reopened.

After discussions, the military and government of Five Bridges City accepted the Defense Director’s coordination and jointly issued a notice: Changes have occurred in the Secret Realm, and from today onwards, entry into the Secret Realm is forbidden, and those inside should withdraw promptly.

The same arrangement occurred in the Purple Capital Secret Realm.

Netizens immediately paid attention, and the internet was full of speculation. Was there a major change in the Secret Realm due to similar announcements from both realms?

At that moment, past videos and short articles about near-death experiences in the Five Bridges Secret Realm due to geological disasters were pushed to the forefront by keen-eyed netizens.

To avoid exposing Ye Nai, she wasn’t sent to the Five Bridges Secret Realm prematurely; instead, the Space Awakened in Five Bridges City responsible for the three transmission platforms, under tight security protection, entered the Secret Realm, placed the transmission platform on the open ground of Zone 2, and then immediately withdrew. The surrounding surveillance cameras were also turned off.

By midnight in the Secret Realm, Ye Nai crossed space and cautiously crouched in the shadows between buildings, using spores to remotely retrieve the transmission platform.

Then, she ventured deeper into the Secret Realm, pulled out a takeout meal, and dined while waiting.

Now, the Space Fungus had grown extremely powerful, with decomposing and absorbing the transmission platform much faster than before. Ye Nai hadn’t even finished her meal when the three transmission platforms had turned into a pile of scraps, and the Transmission Witch Pattern was successfully extracted.

Soon after, the space suddenly shook, nearly knocking the bowl out of Ye Nai’s hand. The familiar long-lost feeling returned, but there was no other major issue, possibly because her spiritual power had also strengthened significantly.

She continued eating unperturbed, but the people outside the Five Bridges Secret Realm had already noticed something was amiss.

They couldn’t get in.

Both vehicles and pedestrians were blocked in front of the transmission vortex.

If the vehicle speed were a bit faster, it would even feel like a crash collision.

This situation immediately reminded the personnel stationed outside the Secret Realm of the records.

When the East Ridge Secret Realm closed initially, it also banned any personnel or vehicles from entering, followed by personnel evacuation, and finally, the enormous transmission port disappeared.

Realizing the same situation was happening, the stationed personnel immediately reported it.

Informed officials, who had been waiting for the news, quickly arrived at the scene.

Though they couldn’t enter either, they remained outside to watch over the premises until the first wave of people from inside came out, as only then would they feel relieved.

Outside the Five Bridges Secret Realm was a large square with several nearby intersections, where self-media anchors camping day and night for a scoop on this event were preemptively restricted to two intersections.

Noticing the abnormal traffic flow, they eagerly raised their cameras, while some started livestreaming with their phones.

Their actions easily rekindled the memories of netizens.

After all, the mysterious closure of the East Ridge Secret Realm had only occurred last August.