CHAPTER 59: CHAPTER 28: DAYBREAK (TWO-SECOND VERSION)

After the fight with the Stone Armored Bear, Yan Luo did not suffer any obvious injuries, but after the battle ended, Yan Luo returned to the motorcycle to set up the tent. Upon careful inspection of himself, he discovered quite a few hidden injuries.

Most of the injured areas were joints; Yan Luo’s movements were too intense during the battle, making joint spraining almost unavoidable.

Fortunately, after this battle, while digesting the magic power, his joints should be strengthened.

The joint areas are indeed difficult to train, it seems Sasa’s training plan is correct.

After finishing his self-inspection, Yan Luo sat on the motorcycle and turned his head to look at the exoskeleton armor he had placed aside.

After experiencing a bare-handed fight, Yan Luo suddenly felt that the exoskeleton was like a burden to him.

The exoskeleton severely limited his flexibility, significantly reducing his running speed and jumping height, and the only thing it could provide might just be defense.

His body was not strong enough, unable to resist high temperatures and low temperatures, nor could it withstand heavy attacks.

In abyss hunting, combat power is not everything; survival ability is what hunters should focus on, but many hunters have misplaced priorities.

They are hunters, not warriors; the sole purpose of entering the abyss should be to hunt demons, not anything else.

So, even if the exoskeleton armor would cause some limitations for Yan Luo, he still chose to continue wearing the exoskeleton to move in the abyss.

Yan Luo glanced at the time, confirming it was time for him to rest, and then put on the exoskeleton, forcing himself to sleep.

Crimson Abyss does not have day and night changes, making it difficult for hunters to sense the passage of time; whether they are novices or veteran hunters, it is hard to grasp the allocation of rest time and hunting time.

Because of this, every hunter in the Crimson Abyss should periodically check the clock and set a rest period for themselves.

Yan Luo fell asleep while wearing the exoskeleton, but was startled awake halfway through by a demon.

The demon had already approached his campsite and could potentially threaten him.

Therefore Yan Luo decisively took action, rushing out of the tent in an instant and drawing his blade to slay the ordinary-level demon.

A demon has appeared here, so this campsite can no longer be used, and he must relocate.

For hunters operating in the abyss, unless there is a large battle group acting collectively, it is common to relocate camp halfway through resting.

Not everyone can be as comfortable as Yan Luo, easily finding a campsite where there are few demons.

Yan Luo would look for several places as campsites every time he arrived somewhere; even if one campsite was discovered by demons, he could relocate to another campsite, ensuring he has adequate rest.

Turn off the light adjustment mode of the visor, and the red moonlight once again fell into Yan Luo’s eyes.

After packing up the tent and other items, Yan Luo rode the motorcycle towards the next campsite.

While the motorcycle was traveling halfway, Yan Luo suddenly discovered—

The sky was ’light’!

The forest was no longer shrouded in shadows; gentle sunlight descended from the sky, illuminating the entire forest.

Yan Luo looked up in shock, seeing beams of sunlight passing through the gaps between the leaves and falling into the forest.

Under the effect of the Tyndall effect, Yan Luo could even see the floating dust within those beams of light.

But daylight lasted only a short two seconds, and after two seconds, the Crimson Abyss returned to its sinister and bloody original state.

Yan Luo paused for a moment, hastily opened the monitoring video of the visor, to ensure he was not hallucinating.

The result showed that the monitoring video confirmed that the Crimson Abyss really brightened up for two seconds!

It’s true!

The Crimson Abyss really brightened!

What exactly was going on? Why did the Crimson Abyss brighten?

Even Yan Luo, for a moment, couldn’t accept the situation.

In his mind, the Crimson Abyss has always looked the way he saw it now.

The abyss is always filled with moonlight as red as blood, and hunters must turn on the visor’s light adjustment mode to live more comfortably here.

Daylight? What’s that? The Crimson Abyss never had daytime!

Yan Luo’s sense of smell was keen, and he quickly realized that the Crimson Abyss had undergone another mutation.

This mutation is only related to the Crimson Abyss, because among all abyss, only the Crimson Abyss has no day and night changes, staying in a perpetual night state.

The last mutation was not long ago, and now another mutation has occurred.

How could the abyss mutate so often, is all of this related to the failure in the Bright Silver Abyss strategy?

Until Yan Luo arrived at the primary backup campsite, the Crimson Abyss did not change to daytime again.

It seems that the daylight was just momentary, and the night is the eternal of the Crimson Abyss.

But if there was one, there would be two; since the Crimson Abyss showed daylight once, surely another time will occur.

Yan Luo did not continue to wait; the camera he installed on the tent would truthfully record everything he saw, and as long as he reviewed the surveillance footage after resting, he could find out if daylight appeared a second time.

Thus, Yan Luo entered sleep.

......

"Something bad has happened! Teacher, something big has happened in the Abyss!"

Sasa heard one of her seniors yelling and running into the lab room compartment, talking via intercom to those inside the lab.

Their large group of students’ mentor, Professor Li Jiongming, was dissecting a Swift Claw Falcon.

After leaving the abyss, the Swift Claw Falcon became much more lethargic, and Professor Li Jiongming was conducting what was theoretically the last dissection study of this Swift Claw Falcon.

Basically, after this dissection study ends, this Swift Claw Falcon will die, and whether it can survive until the end of the study is even questionable.

Upon hearing the anxious voice from the speaker, Li Jiongming frowned and said in a deep voice: "What happened that made you so anxious?"

Despite speaking, his hands didn’t stop; Li Jiongming continued the final dissection of the dying Swift Claw Falcon.

"Daytime! It’s daytime! Daytime appeared in the Crimson Abyss! Although it lasted only two seconds, it was daytime, teacher!"

It’s well known that the Crimson Abyss doesn’t have daylight.

However, now the Crimson Abyss showed two seconds of daylight!

Even Li Jiongming, who has weathered many great storms, was momentarily lost upon hearing this news, leading to the accidental death of the Swift Claw Falcon.

Watching the Swift Claw Falcon’s body turn into magic power, forming a cyclone, and condensing into an object, Li Jiongming remained silent.

Has the abyss’s erosion on reality further intensified?

"Pack up, we will prepare to enter the abyss for investigation."

Li Jiongming left a sentence, leaving the lab cleaning work to the students, and turned to leave the lab.

The lab’s airtight door opened, Li Jiongming took off the disposable gloves and hat, threw them into the dedicated trash bin for such waste, and then entered the dedicated cleaning room to cleanse his body.

Even though there are no bacteria or viruses in the abyss, the rules and regulations still need to be followed.

The Lingquan University investigative team had been at Crimson No.2 for a few days, during which Li Jiongming and other leading teachers negotiated with many hunter teams and battle groups, attempting to hire a group of hunters to protect them while investigating the abyss.

Just yesterday, they finally reached an agreement, and the team’s protection force would be led by the third platoon of the Glazed Group, along with some scattered hunter groups and lone hunters, enough to protect the research team during activities in the abyss.

This research activity was only a trial run and would only take place in the Dark Forest. Once the hunters are coordinated, they will withdraw from the abyss once, then enter the abyss again for the formal research activity.

The formal research activity will need to venture into other areas of the Crimson Abyss, rather than being limited to the Dark Forest.

After finishing the disinfection, Li Jiongming stepped out of the brightly lit yet slightly damp laboratory area, came to a smoking area, took out a cigarette, and silently lit it.

He was seventy-two years old this year, an elder who walked through that tumultuous era, and coupled with his high status, naturally knew some secret information.

Except he hadn’t expected this day to come so quickly...