Chapter 1 Uh Oh…

Damn it…

The compass malfunctioned, and the flashlight flickered.

The events unfolding before Fatty’s eyes felt familiar. Electronic devices had been similarly disrupted near Devil’s Mountain Pass, the underwater stone city, and the underground city in the desert. Any device that relied on electricity had malfunctioned.

The current situation was identical. If he was right, it meant they were getting closer and closer to the meteorite.

But Fatty distinctly remembered that they had been running away from the target point. That is to say, they were running in the opposite direction of the meteorite.

But how could this be…

Rouyi was also puzzled, but she quickly reacted and offered her own idea: "Could it be that we thought we were running in the opposite direction, but in reality, we had long deviated from our escape route, chased all over the place by those glowing dots?"

Fatty was struck by Rouyi's reminder and suddenly understood: "We might have been chased around in a circle by the dot matrix, and now we're running towards the meteorite's location!"

Danger lay ahead, and danger lay behind.

Fatty was now in a dilemma.

At that moment, Derrick, who was leading the way, suddenly seemed to be hit by something. He fell to the ground with a thud, seeing stars, his nose bleeding.

Those following behind Derrick couldn't stop in time either and, like Derrick, crashed into something unknown, leaving them dazed and confused.

Derrick covered his bleeding nose and got up from the ground. He reached out and groped in the air in front of him, finally touching an invisible obstacle. Derrick patted the invisible barrier in front of him.

"Mr. Shi, there's a transparent wall here."

Derrick shouted to Fatty, who was following behind.

What transparent wall? Fatty wondered.

Fatty glanced ahead. The view was open, and the environment ahead was no different from their current location. Fatty didn't see the wall that Derrick was talking about.

Fatty approached Derrick and swiped his hand through the air in front of him, as Derrick indicated. With that swipe, he also touched the obstacle.

Fatty felt that the surface of the barrier was smooth and flat, but he didn't know what material it was made of. The wall was perpendicular to the ground, with no edges to feel and no temperature.

There really was a transparent wall in front of him.

At that moment, the glowing dot matrix behind the team gradually approached, leaving the team in a dilemma.

Derrick took out a logging axe and chopped at the transparent wall a few times, but no sound was produced. The axe felt like it was hitting a wad of cotton. The transparent wall was unscathed, not even a nick. If the axe blade hadn't become slightly dull, he wouldn't have been sure there was a transparent wall in front of him.

Fatty watched as the glowing dots approached. He noticed that the glowing dot matrix was still a distance away from the grass on the ground. He suddenly thought that if they lay on the ground, they might be able to avoid the glowing dot matrix and escape this disaster.

In the nick of time, Fatty gave an order: "Everyone, lie down!"

Upon hearing the command, everyone instantly fell to the ground. Rouyi didn't understand the meaning of "lie down" at first. She was at a loss, seeing everyone else falling to the ground.

Before Rouyi could react, Fatty and Jennifer grabbed her and pushed her to the ground.

The glowing dots quickly passed over everyone's heads and rushed towards the transparent wall.

Countless glowing dots impacted the transparent wall in a very short time. The edge of the transparent wall appeared under the effect of the green glow. The transparent wall extended left and right, seemingly without end, and extended straight into the sky, appearing to be a semi-circular structure.

The glowing dots that came into contact with the transparent wall vibrated violently, reacted with the wall, and made a dull sound like knocking on a large urn.

The green glow on the wall became more and more intense, spreading like radiation from the area bombarded by the glowing dots, the color fading from deep to light.

The muffled sound was mixed with crackling sounds, like the sound of dry wood burning.

"Look—a hole has appeared in the wall."

Derrick was closest to the wall, and he was the first to notice the anomaly in the wall.

A small hole appeared in the center of the area bombarded by the glowing dots. There were signs of melting around the outer edge of the small hole, and the small hole was constantly expanding.

The glowing dots continued to impact the transparent wall, and the opening was torn larger and larger by a strange force.

Fatty looked through the small hole to the other side of the wall. The other side of the wall was a different world, and the environment inside was completely different from the rainforest.

Fatty judged that the meteorite was very likely behind this wall, but danger was also behind this wall.

The glowing dots continued to impact the wall at high speed, and the small hole gradually became a huge, irregular opening, forming a vertical crack.

The crack that appeared out of nowhere seemed to be a lifeline that suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes.

The group did not dare to rush around like the reckless fools they had been before, but instead lay prone on the spot, waiting for Fatty's instructions.

The situation now was that they would either be burned to death by the glowing flames, or they would seek a chance of survival in danger.

Fatty didn't dare to delay, so he gave the order: "Crawl forward and enter the crack."

After saying that, Fatty quickly crawled forward, leading the way at the front of the team, and was the first to pass through the crack. Derrick, Rouyi, and Jennifer followed closely behind and also crawled into the crack.

Dodger was covered in sweat. The glowing dots flying over his head made him unable to lift his head, and his fractured arm made his movements extremely slow.

While Dodger was struggling, everyone else had already crawled into the crack, leaving only Dodger outside the wall.

Dodger tried hard to peer into the crack, but due to light refraction, he could only see some strange scenes, but he couldn't see the five people who had just passed through.

Dodger gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind, crawling to the other side of the crack below the endless stream of glowing dots.