The higher-ups sent us here because the Death Desert has something that interests them. Modern people can use satellites to clearly see people and vehicles on the ground, and it's possible they have long seen the glowing object at the center of the Ancient City via satellite.
They just need someone to come in and verify it since satellites can see but cannot touch.
This thing needs to be approached to know what it is, to further study it, but unfortunately, until now, no one who has approached it has successfully left.
"Could there be radiation?" Wang Le asked.
"Well... at least not any known radiation," Mike said. He had a mechanical box in his backpack with lots of numeric symbols and small buttons on it.
Whenever he walked a bit, he would take it out and fiddle with it for a while. I only know that this device is for checking something, but I'm not sure exactly what it measures.
