257: Chapter 257 Summer Insects Cannot Discuss Ice

As the crowd whispered among themselves, their eyes fixed on the massive, unprecedented sealed door, a middle-aged man in a suit walked up with a serious expression.

Everyone present recognized him; he was Cole, the supervisor in charge of the selection process. Consequently, the crowd immediately stopped talking and straightened their expressions.

In their eyes, this supervisor was already a big shot.

"Ladies and gentlemen,"

Cole habitually adjusted his cuffs, his voice coming through the loudspeaker as clear as ever. "First of all, welcome to the basic action team of the Mars Plan. This is a secret operation with an S-Rank confidentiality level from the company. Tell me, can you complete the company's mission?"

"We guarantee to complete the mission."

Cole frowned slightly. He didn't speak immediately, instead slowly sweeping his sharp eyes over every face in the audience.

The crowd felt a shiver run through them.

"Now, tell me! As members of the Mars Plan action team! Can you complete the company's mission?!"

"We guarantee to complete the mission!!" Ayla and Zhou Shiqi shouted at the top of their lungs.

Because of the language barrier, it sounded a bit strange.

"Very good," Cole finally showed a satisfied expression and clapped. "I have already felt your enthusiasm."

"As basic action team members, your duty is to cooperate with the research team's operations. You must not disobey orders."

"Please take your terminal communicators, keep the confidentiality regulations in mind, and now, prepare to depart!"

After Cole finished giving his instructions, he operated something on his terminal, and the sealed door behind him slowly opened, revealing a pitch-black tunnel with edges that seemed to have faint electrical currents.

At the same time, a slightly serious female system voice rang out: 【Channel H13 is open, welcome to Titan.】

Titan?

Among the fifty-plus people, a lean young man was startled upon hearing this word. Wasn't this the Planet from the game "journey," the game that was currently still the most popular one outside?

Before he joined Third-Party Technology, he was a loyal player of this game, and he still was; even now, he would log in as usual after returning to the dormitory.

His in-game ID in "journey" was Eternal Night. Now, he had even founded a guild with his former partners, and the guild had its own Base vehicle. At this hour, the others were likely happily building their city Base inside.

Could this game be real?

A sense of absurdity rose in Chen Feiyu's heart. After joining Third-Party Technology, he had already been shocked by how deep his company was hidden; it turned out there was such a massive secret organization guarding the World in the shadows.

Were there even more unknown things now?

While Chen Feiyu was thinking, Cole's voice rang out, "Alright, team members, let's go. Once you get there, don't wander around; go straight to the mission target point."

The team began to walk toward the tunnel. The moment he stepped into the pitch-black passage, Chen Feiyu felt his vision go dark and experienced a slight sensation of weightlessness. When he opened his eyes, he found himself... still in the integrated training hall??

Only then did they realize that there was also a Black Watch Base on Titan. The difference was that it was built on the surface. After exiting the Base, Chen Feiyu and the others in the team were completely stunned.

It was as if the World had changed; the scene before them was absolutely breathtaking.

This was a massive alien Planet, with an endless complex of buildings stretching into the distance, with no end in sight.

Those who had come here for the first time gasped in unison.

Chen Feiyu's pupils constricted. He was more than familiar with the scene here; it was exactly the place they had built.

So the content in the "journey" game was real. There really was such a bizarre and massive Planet, and Third-Party Technology was using the hands of the players to develop this Planet.

Was this the truth of the World...

Thinking of the various encirclement and weapon testing missions issued in the game, Chen Feiyu felt goosebumps all over his body.

Next, everyone boarded several heavy all-terrain exploration vehicles headed for their destination. These vehicles had a rugged design, with wide low-pressure tires nearly as tall as a person, and the bodies were covered in heavy composite armor.

The Beast-II model.

Chen Feiyu looked at the vehicle, silently reciting its price in his heart. This vehicle sold for 5,000 star coins in the game.

When it was first listed in the system store, it was the dream car for countless players.

The vehicles roared and drove straight down the road. The people on board gradually calmed down from the shock brought by Titan and began to whisper their thoughts to each other.

Facing such a massive impact, he hadn't gone crazy; Chen Feiyu felt he was doing pretty well. All he wanted to say now was:

Third-Party Technology is awesome!!

Chen Feiyu thought with emotion, no wonder the company could solve the Petrification Virus that swept across the globe. Those people outside who opposed Third-Party Technology simply didn't understand what the company had endured or what it had sacrificed for humanity.

Truly, summer insects cannot talk about ice.

But... even the Central Continent probably didn't know, right?

Chen Feiyu suddenly thought of this possibility, his heart jolting in surprise, and he felt more and more that his reasoning was correct.

For some reason, an indescribable, eerie sense of excitement rose in Chen Feiyu's heart.

What else was there to say? He would dedicate his all to this unprecedented, awesome company!!

——

The all-terrain exploration vehicles drove for nearly two hours before reaching their destination. There were several massive ring-shaped fortresses here, and Chen Feiyu and his group's target was the one on the left.

After driving in, everyone discovered that there was a whole new World inside. It was a large Base, equipped with various pieces of equipment, both familiar and unfamiliar.

And on the center platform, there was a Wormhole that was constantly emitting a faint blue light.

At this moment, hundreds of people were already gathered around the Wormhole. After Chen Feiyu's team got off the vehicles, they hurried to join this massive crowd, no longer standing out.

What surprised Chen Feiyu was that at the very front of the crowd were some famous and influential heavyweight Professors. He even saw Bloyva, the Titan of the geological World, and the famous astrophysicist from Russia, Valerian Petrovich; the two of them were talking about something.

He hadn't expected that these figures, who were rumored to have disappeared from the outside World, had all joined Third-Party Technology. These Professors must be the core of this operation.

Chen Feiyu thought that his task was to assist with their work—commonly known as being a gofer.

About half an hour later, the bearded Valerian picked up a microphone and spoke to all the personnel participating in the Mars Plan, with a heavy Eastern European accent.

"Hey! All Mars Plan members, quiet down and listen up!"

"Now I can make it clear to you: on the other side of this Wormhole is Mars, a strange World that humanity has never set foot on."

"Our mission is to break this history."