With intense curiosity, Long Yun took the photo from Zakayev.

Looking at the black and white aerial photos on his hand, Long Yun’s first impression was that the camera that took these photos at that time had a malfunction or was seriously disturbed by severe ionizing radiation.

As for his rough observation, there were spots of snowflake-like noise and undulating ripple noise on the photo paper in his hand. Although it was not enough to see the target of the shooting, it was difficult to identify the details of the photo. With a little doubt, Long Yun's thoughts did not stay here for long. He had seen these black and white photos one by one, and then he had the first intuitive impression of the mysterious "Roman" base.

Unlike his previous imagination, the so-called "Rome" looks really like a large town.

From the photo, when looking at the appearance of "Rome" from an angle of approximately vertical viewing, you can see buildings similar to small towns and streets with vertical and horizontal directions. From the projection of buildings of different widths, you can find that the houses here are generally low, but there are also buildings such as towering chimneys and water towers. As for the size of the entire area, since the conversion ratio is not given in the aerial photos, Long Yun can only guess that this area can accommodate thousands of people to live and work; of course, in fact, which are living areas and which are research sites in the buildings, he certainly has no idea.

"This... 'Rome' looks quite like an ordinary town."

After watching a few photos, Long Yun had no idea what to say, so he could only express his impression first.

However, at this time his doubts also came. Even if the data is stored in a centralized manner, can't we send special forces members directly into the 'zero three-five three' area. Not to mention conducting an investigation on the spot, at least the data can be taken out from 'Rome'? Although we have experienced terrible upheavals, the situation in the base is probably extremely terrifying, but since we need to investigate, we cannot be afraid of difficulties. Can the KGB, who will win the battle, not even do this?

After hesitating for a while, he still asked this question in a tactful manner, asking Zakayev to continue talking.

"Yes, what you said was right. Your thoughts were our thoughts at that time. Even if we lack information and don't even have a decent map, we must try to arrive in "Rome" to see what happened. Even if everyone inside has already...ah, they have already died of misfortune, and we must always have a conclusion to be able to rest in peace!

However, since reconnaissance planes and vehicles were missing and the personnel encountered unexpected lessons, the actions of the General Administration of Rome naturally had to be more cautious. Regarding the tragedy that occurred in Rome at that time, we then conducted a series of dangerous tests. Although it caused several new accidents, we gradually figured out what kind of phenomenon was causing trouble that night.

Yes. I'm right: these tasks just clarify the phenomena, not the causes; as for why these phenomena occur, I still have no clue yet.

Regarding the 'zero three' area. What is certain now is that some unknown mysterious factor has been shrouded in the center of 'Rome' after the tragedy, with a radius of about 20 kilometers. Anyone who approaches or even enters this area will encounter terrible torture and dies immediately if severely; not only that, all equipment that relies on electronic principles will lose its normal function inside and at the edge of the area, and will cause incomprehensible failures.

In short, as far as my personal guess is, there seems to be a mysterious force that broke out of control during the tragedy of "Rome", turning the entire area into a forbidden zone for humans and electronic devices; based on what I saw and heard that night, combined with the experience of the saviors, it is estimated that everyone in the base of "Rome" may have been... all killed when the tragedy happened."

...All died?

Although after hearing this story, Long Yun had already concluded that there were many dangers in the "Roman" base, he still felt very scared when he heard this statement. The people in the entire base died inexplicably on the spot, and died in pain in the way Zakayev witnessed it at that time?

Unconsciously remembering the horrifying experience that Zakayev just told, Long Yun was shocked and had new doubts in his heart.

"Comrade Zakayev, on the night when the tragedy happened, the... who killed the detectives and soldiers (Long Yun really didn't know how to describe the terrible murderous force), what exactly was it?"

"I... told you, I don't know."

Zakayev's answer was obviously indifferent when he said this sentence with a little tiredness; probably because he saw the disappointment in Long Yun's expression, the old man took out a cigarette from the cigarette box, held it in his hand without lit it. He slowly explained to Long Yun the next development of the incident.

"Just now, when it comes to the mysterious power that completely separates 'Rome', we have conducted a lot of research, but we have not reached any valuable conclusions in terms of theoretical physics, or special abilities. In short, that mysterious power is there, and all the exploration actions taken on it are gone - this is actually easy to understand. Comrade Rezenov, you might as well think about it. If a place cannot be entered by people and instruments, what is the situation there, and it is completely impossible to know."

After a brief thought, Long Yun had to nod and admit that Zakayev was right:

"It seems...so that's it, huh..."

Yes, in this era where the parallel world is located, although human technological development has achieved many achievements, in the face of terrible and mysterious power, Long Yun thought a little depressedly that he had no way to spy on the mysterious "Rome".

While thinking, the only thing he could think of was to observe from a distance through optical devices. For example, the aerial photos he just saw were still gaining something? But he immediately thought of the chaotic interference and noise in the photos, and then he understood that the meaning of doing so was actually very limited.

For the secret base where drastic changes are just able to observe the situation from twenty kilometers away. What is the significance of this kind of observation?

Noting Long Yun's expression changed, Zakayev nodded silently, and then said something a little discouraged:

"Yes, that's the case. In short, after trying various methods and means, we finally determined that this mysterious force is neither radiation nor highly toxic substance, which cannot be monitored nor blocked; without all reliable observation methods and no possibility of getting close to the area, the investigation is naturally unsustainable.

In this way, the "Rome" originally used as a special abilities to study has become a forbidden zone for humans; for this land that makes people feel desperate, we gradually changed our name. The former "Rome" base is now called...
Chapter completed!