Doomsday Roulette

"This is the Underworld Bone Demon Platform?" On the largest heavy truck in the convoy brought by Mu Xinfey, a few towering figures were fanned with black cloth.

After discussing in the room, Ye Zhongming couldn't wait to come see the Underworld Bone Demon Platform.

Xia Lei walked around the massive structure that had been moved to the ground and asked Ye Zhongming beside her.

Even with their extensive experience, neither Xia Lei nor Guangyao had ever seen something like this. If they encountered it in the wild, they would likely assume it was the bone of some mutated creature rather than a piece of equipment.

No, it wasn't equipment. Xia Lei and the others sensed a very faint life force emanating from these three objects, something that could easily be overlooked if one didn't pay close attention.

This was a living organism!

The Underworld Bone Demon Platform didn't appear to be complicated in structure; it resembled a huge circular bone plate with tall, curved bone rods growing from the edge, bending inward. Several of these bones connected above the center of the plate.

The so-called "mother platform" of the Underworld Bone Demon Platform was a circular bone plate about fifty square meters in area, with two curved bones distributed parallelly around it. After connecting above the center of the bone plate, the entire platform resembled a door.

These features were quite ordinary, albeit with an unusual shape, but what truly astonished them was that at the bottom of the circular bone plate, there were densely packed, unknown purple tentacles!

These purple tentacles were small, each resembling half of a regular ballpoint pen, and looked like some sort of enlarged mop head.

At the bottom of the tentacles were some suction cup-like structures that remained still, propping up the massive body.

The two subplatforms looked similar to the mother platform, differing only in size and the number and position of the curved long bones on the bone plate. The subplatform had only one long bone, located in the center of the plate.

"This is the Underworld Bone Demon Platform!"

The two phrases were identical—one an inquiry, the other a confirmation.

Ye Zhongming touched the three Underworld Bone Demon Platforms, not hiding his excitement at all; he had been pretending just moments before in front of Mu Xinfey.

This was the Underworld Bone Demon Platform!

In his past life, Ye Zhongming didn't know how many of these existed, but as far as he knew, there was only one set, owned by a superpower. In this life, it seemed the one before him might be that very set, now belonging to him.

The Underworld Bone Demon Platform was a very special life form, not merely a piece of equipment.

This life form had only one function for humans—teleportation!

In his previous life, it was said that the discovery of such a thing was entirely accidental. A small faction found the mother platform of the Underworld Bone Demon Platform in the wild and, intrigued, brought it back to their camp. Everyone studied it for a long time, but they were all baffled, not knowing its purpose.

In the end, they could only leave it there.

Who would have thought that every night following that, people would mysteriously disappear? No matter how tight the security or how many precautions were taken, people went missing.

Eventually, by sheer chance, a survivor returning from a watch duty witnessed a scene that terrified him.

He saw a companion walk up to the Underworld Bone Demon Platform, and suddenly, it seemed as if something had sucked him in. The man flew over more than two meters, crashing onto the circular bone plate, and then—his figure flickered and vanished.

Just as that person rushed over to see what was happening, the individual reappeared, still in that fallen position, but now looking emaciated.

In the next second, that person vanished again, reappearing, then disappearing once more!

This series of disappearances and reappearances happened within a minute. When that person appeared for the last time, they had already turned into a pile of white bones, which swiftly transformed into a thick liquid, gradually seeping into the bone plate.