CHAPTER 504: CHAPTER 379: DOOMSDAY BUNKER ACQUISITION, THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY!

"This... how is this possible..."

Lin Yue closed the thick diary, feeling as though he were in a dream.

Everything recorded inside was almost identical to his most terrifying and horrifying thoughts.

Moreover, it was even more bizarre and fantastical!

He closed his eyes, feeling that his original understanding of this place was teetering on the edge of collapse.

The information and intelligence revealed in the diary, which contradicted the current Otherworld survival game, had plunged Lin Yue into deeper suspicion and thought.

Lin Yue glanced again at the skeleton before him.

According to the diary, shortly after entering this Otherworld, this person met a female Survivor. As more Survivors joined the Shelter, their team grew larger. This person established a relationship with the female Survivor, and after moving house twice, they settled near an oil mine. Eventually, believing the child with the female Survivor belonged to another person’s child, he went mad, killing everyone, and finally ended his own life in this study.

But, those were evidently trivial matters.

In this diary, it was the strange intelligence unfamiliar to him that was more important.

Lin Yue read through the diary again, took out his pen, and wrote some noteworthy keywords in his own diary.

But he found that even after writing three to four pages, the keywords seemed endless.

From the moment he entered the Shelter, one mystery after another began to appear, each making him question this world more.

The Shelter entrance buried beneath soil, a corpse clearly dead for more than thirty-five days, clothes that crumbled at a touch, widespread dust...

This place was like a vortex of a vast enigma, effortlessly swallowing all of Lin Yue’s understanding of this world.

"If this diary can be considered real... no, both this diary and these bones basically prove that everything in this Shelter is an existence from a different time and space from our current survival attempt."

The handwriting and paper preservation levels in the diary showed significant signs of aging, certainly not something that could happen within thirty-five days. Not to mention everything else in the shelter pointed to anomalies and differences.

Lin Yue stayed silent, trying to calm his excited emotions and focusing his attention on thinking.

He attempted in his mind to piece together the keywords and various information, seeking the closest truth.

"Then, this isn’t humanity’s first time traveling to the Otherworld to survive. There was an occurrence decades ago, specifically almost thirty years ago, when one billion people came to this world."

Analyzing the information such as beepers, paging stations, and phone information recorded by the diary’s author, it’s concluded that the previous batch of Survivors were led into the Otherworld almost thirty years ago by the system.

The evidence is the diary’s author had no knowledge or understanding of the ’internet,’ and the system suitably provided this wave of one billion Survivors with appropriate communication and trading platforms.

"Thirty years ago, these people were transported to the Otherworld... Although it’s unclear where the number came from, once these people arrived in the Otherworld, the difficulty of survival was much simpler compared to now, as they could even move freely at night, and there never seemed to be a shortage of food and water."

"Moreover, the disaster cycles for them extended to once every fifteen days, resources appeared easily obtainable, and even the appearance of giant creatures came much later than now."

Lin Yue continuously recorded the conclusions in his diary.

"They easily used the Platinum Treasure Chest to open an oil extraction and refining platform and were only completely wiped out by the 369th day in the Otherworld."

"They also found the Ancient Secret Realm Gate and encountered the Lizardman race."

Though this diary was filled with considerable irrelevant content, there were indeed some points worth noticing.

Especially...

Lin Yue wrote "Xing Lingfeng" in his book and circled it.

This name shouldn’t have appeared in this diary, yet it was indeed mentioned.

This could be said to be the diary’s greatest mystery.

Moreover, from the time Xing Lingfeng joined the Shelter until his "disappearance," almost every daily diary entry contained some mention of him.

The diary described Xing Lingfeng as in his twenties, not one for words, but possessing abilities in survival far superior to the average person, and quite obedient, thus highly valued and trusted by the diary’s author, who even spent days searching for him upon his disappearance, thereby developing some estrangement with old Sun Yi.

The description of Xing Lingfeng’s disappearance was even more enigmatic.

According to the diary, old Sun Yi and Xing Lingfeng had both discovered a strange gate by a small lake, leading to a peculiar mountain with Earth-like plants and insects, but upon returning to the Shelter, they found it had relocated, explicitly stating it was due to finding oil.