Chapter 1291: Chapter 724: Forbidden Enigma

"What about the cause of death, have you analyzed it?" Chen Yehu looked at the operation staff.

The staff analyzed: "The refugees’ skin hasn’t shown any noticeable changes, and there are no obvious external injuries. Currently, there are two possibilities: one is that they were bitten by an unknown poisonous insect, and the intense protein toxin caused organ failure and cardiac arrest; another possibility is that there might be tiny ’spores’ or bacteria floating in the air within the Taboo Land, both of which could account for the current cause of death. We’ll need to perform autopsies to determine the exact cause."

Chen Yehu nodded: "Then there’s no urgency in analyzing the cause of death, understand the rules, and avoid them, that’s enough."

Five minutes passed, in the 120 real-time transmission videos, there were two more refugees who suddenly fell to the ground.

The operation staff in the command truck were thrilled, was this a discovery of a new rule?

They didn’t care whether the refugees died; they only cared whether they could decode all the rules of the 008 Taboo Land this time!

They extracted that video segment separately and replayed it repeatedly.

In the new video, a middle-aged man was moving through the forest when he suddenly slipped and fell.

The critical moment arrived: someone reached out to help him, but both of them fell to the ground convulsing, and soon lay still on the ground.

In the video, Liu Pengsheng, team leader of the first squad, walked to the two corpses, probing their neck arteries with his fingers, then confirmed: "Deceased."

After the confirmation of death by the squad leader, it must be a breach of the rules; otherwise, they wouldn’t have died so strangely.

More than a dozen operation staff analyzed: "Eliminating factors like age, name, medical history, etc., the new rule should be that they cannot shake hands. But what’s not yet determined is: can people of the opposite sex shake hands, while the same sex cannot."

Another operation staff said: "The deaths were confirmed personally by two squad leaders, it should be authentic, and the two leaders are quite responsible."

Chen Yehu nodded: "No need to analyze the rules specifically for now, later when we enter the Taboo Land, we just need to ensure not to shake hands, or even minimize physical contact. Alright, record a new rule and let the troops continue forward."

The refugee convoy continued to move forward, and after three hours, a strange event occurred. In the video, Chen’s soldiers were distributing protein bars to the refugees.

The result was that as soon as the more than a hundred refugees took two bites, they all fell to the ground convulsing.

Leaders of the squad walked among the corpses repeatedly shouting, "Confirmed deceased!"

"Confirmed deceased!"

"Confirmed deceased!"

The four squad leaders looked serious, with the sudden death of more than a hundred refugees in one instance, the grave expressions on their faces vividly conveyed their emotions into the command truck.

The more than a dozen operation staff in the command truck watched this scene, inexplicably shocked, realizing that once entering the 008 Taboo Land, one can’t eat?!

Among them, one operation staff said: "Currently, it’s impossible to determine whether one can’t eat protein bars or any food at all. Commander, crossing the 008 Taboo Land would take at least 4 days, and if the soldiers can only drink water and not eat, it will be very arduous, possibly affecting 80% of the combat effectiveness."

This impact is too severe.

The Chen Clan explored the 008 Taboo Land to facilitate future deployments to the southwest and restrain Qing’s Family.

Yet now accessing it means not eating for 4 days, who can withstand that?

In the march, soldiers ate High-Energy Protein Bars, which provide much more energy than the refugees’ but are still protein bars.

Chen Yehu pondered for a moment, then spoke over the communication channel: "Try letting the refugees sample the instant beef you carry to see if there’s an issue."

"Received," leader Liu Pengsheng opened up vacuum packed instant beef from his emergency kit, looked coldly at one of the refugees in front of him: "Eat it."

Refugee Zard became terrified: "Can’t eat, sir, can’t eat, eating will kill us!"

"Even if it kills you, you must eat!" Liu Pengsheng cruelly stated.

Beside him, Chen’s soldiers were shocked, thinking, sir, you were just with this young man last night... and now you want to take him out?

An execution?!

Yet, Liu Pengsheng called for soldiers to hold Zard down, then forcibly stuffed the beef into his mouth, the next moment, Zard convulsed violently, dying with eyes wide open.

In the command truck, all the operation staff stared at Zard’s lifeless face, a chill rising within them.

Chen Yehu gravely said: "It seems we truly can’t ingest anything, but drinking water is possible, I remember someone drinking water without issues during the march."

"Yes," the operation staff analyzed: "Commander, in our advancement to the southwest we can mix dietary fiber and glucose into water, surviving 4 days won’t be an issue. But this requires establishing a forward base on the opposite side of the Taboo Land, upon main force passage, provide immediate care otherwise combat effectiveness will drop."

"Yes," Chen Yehu nodded: "Discovering more rules is a good thing, this time we must fully probe the 008 Taboo Land, make it Chen’s pasture."

Under each consortium, there must be at least ten Taboo Lands controlled, the Seven Purple Orchid Stars acquired by Chen Yu were obtained in such a manner.

To them, Taboo Lands are strategic resources, potentially becoming, like Aerial Fortress, top strategic resources.

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