Chapter 46 He waited here for her to get hurt, so she couldn’t hide it anymore…
She ran for a long time until the buildings behind her were hidden behind the sand dunes. Then she called out to the yellow velvet bird and climbed onto its back.
However, dozens of minutes later, not far from the agreed location with Gu Feihai, the bird was circling in the sky and was unable to land.
Xu Nuo frowned as he looked at the brown bear and the sentry running below.
Fino's men followed.
A three-meter-tall, brown-red bear scurried along Xiao Gu's flight path, growling fiercely. The guard captain, his hair slightly burnt, stood below with his arms folded, calmly saying, "Miss Xu, the young master wishes to speak with you."
He unfolded the information screen, and Zhou Xuanyi's holographic image appeared.
The handsome man in the video lowered his eyebrows, his eyes showing disapproval of her behavior, but he still tried to smile gently: "Nunuo, come back. It's a contaminated area over there. You won't survive if you go there."
Xu Nuo stared at the holographic image, tore off a large piece of her skirt with her backhand, twisted it into a strong rope, and tied up her long hair.
"You'll get hurt if you resist. Come over now, and I can pretend nothing happened."
Xu Nuo pulled out a pistol from his right leg ring and pulled the safety.
"You even took the base's gun?" Zhou Xuanyi seemed amused. "Those three months, it turns out you never really wanted to stay."
"Stop talking nonsense and stop chasing me," Xu Nuo pointed his gun at the sentry. "This is the base's newest special bullet rifle. It has double the destructive power against sentries and mutants."
Zhou Xuanyi looked at the girl's face, which was stained by sand and dust, and the smile on his lips gradually faded: "Xu Nuo, you don't want to fight him."
Xu Nuo's gun was locked on the sentry's head.
This battle is inevitable, but she hopes Gu Feihai will not come at this time.
Since Zhou Xuanyi knew the relationship between Jiang Chen and her, he must be aware that Gu Feihai was once a member of the base guard. If he saw what Yifino did, Jiang Chen would definitely be investigated.
This group of people are ruthless. Everyone has done their best to help her to this extent. She cannot drag anyone else into this.
The only solution now is...
"You want to fight me?"
The captain's eyes were filled with sarcasm. "I'm an A-rank sentinel. I've carried out countless missions before you were born. I'm afraid your thin arms and legs won't be able to withstand a blow from me..."
“Bang, bang, bang!”
There was an unexpected gunshot, and the bullet with a special bullet hit the captain of the guard's beastly arm that was blocking his view.
The girl had murderous intent. If he hadn't reacted in time, and had underestimated her as he appeared to be, it would have been his head that would have been pierced.
"roar!!"
The brown bear hammered the ground angrily, gathered strength and jumped, and actually jumped to the same height as Xiaogu.
"Little Gu!" The bird immediately turned around, circled upwards, and narrowly avoided the fatal blow.
The brown bear roared below, and the captain of the guard chased it relentlessly, as if trying to gather strength to catch up with the bird.
"There's no other way," Xu Nuo hugged the soft fur on Xiao Gu's neck and took a deep breath towards the nearby contaminated area. "I can't wait for Gu Feihai any longer."
…
Codenamed A01, it is a world-famous Class A polluted area, known as the dead land at the westernmost end of the continent. The density of mutants is Class A, and there is at least one Class A mutant per kilometer.
This was Xu Nuo's first time entering a high-level pollution area. Almost the moment he entered, he felt like he had entered an area filled with an extremely sticky and thick pollution film.
Even if he stayed on the edge, the spiritual tentacles covering Xiao Gu and himself were being consumed at a terrifying rate.
In desperation, she could only let Xiaogu land and shrink, and land on her shoulder.
There is still yellow sand everywhere, but in the countless sands, there seem to be many dilapidated and buried ruins of buildings.
Xu Nuo held his gun in his hand, observing his surroundings with full vigilance. Although the probability of high-level mutants appearing at the edge might not be that high, it was still better to be cautious.
"Roar!" The roar of a brown bear sounded outside. The captain of the guard seemed to be aware of the danger of this area and did not risk entering. Instead, he walked around and roared at the place where he promised to enter, as if he was waiting for her to come out.
His roar will attract mutants, and Xu Nuo cannot stay here for long.
She held the gun and followed the route to leave to the other side along the edge of the contaminated area.
Watching the red dot on the display gradually deviate from the entry route, the guard captain retracted his spirit body, clutching his bleeding arm and said to the other end of the headset, "Master, she's in."
Zhou Xuanyi was silent for a moment: "Go deeper?"
"Yes, I followed the wrong route you gave me and went deeper."
"... Got it. Come back and prepare to capture him."
*
Xu Nuo's breathing became faster.
It was already daybreak, and she had been walking along the edge of the contaminated area for five hours. Her mental tentacles had shrunk into a very thin thread, spreading from under her feet in all directions, quietly exploring the surroundings.
Along the way, there were at least seven mutants of different levels within an average of 100 meters, but fortunately they were all below level C and did not pose a threat yet.
She had to avoid fighting as much as possible so as not to attract unwanted guests.
The fine sand under her feet was flowing slightly. She lowered her head in suspicion, but could not feel any unusual fluctuations. She could only move her steps, bypass the sand, and step onto the ruins buried in the ground.
The architectural style here was similar to that before she traveled through time, with several weathered concert display boards and several statues that looked like the musical fountain in the center of the square.
Area A01 is a very old polluted area. It seems to have existed before the wasteland era officially arrived, but Zhou Xuanyi did not tell her the detailed story.
Finuo had long been entrenched in this area and was the force in the world that knew Area A01 best. Gu Feihai had stolen the distribution of peripheral routes from their database and had her memorize them in the car so that they could circumvent Finuo's sphere of influence in the shortest possible distance.
But why are the levels of mutants around us gradually increasing?
The number of mutants within a hundred meters decreases and their levels increase, which is consistent with the high-level mutants' desire to control their territory, but this should only happen on routes that go deep into the core of the contaminated area.
Thinking of this, Xu Nuo lowered her head to look at the hem of her skirt, which was torn at the edge and reached her thighs. At this moment, she suddenly heard a slight noise under her feet.
"Little Gu!"
“Crash!”
The sand collapsed into a bottomless pit, and the pit wall quickly passed over several wet tentacles.
Xu Nuo lay on Xiao Gu's back, looking towards the big pit with lingering fear. The scene that Qi Qian, then Wei Yan, had shown her with his own eyes on the train to the Vulcan Cup was still vivid in her mind:
It is the death knell of the yellow sand.
The quicksand at the bottom of the collapsed pit gathered and gradually solidified into a huge body like a hill. The tentacles similar to the hill and yellow sand protruded from the sand surface, beating up dust and covering the ground situation vaguely.
Dust rose from the bottom, forming a dense mist with a pungent odor. Xu Nuo, wanting Little Gu to fly away, rapidly raised a tentacle from the dust, grabbed the bird's body, and pulled it downward.
"Chiu-chiu!" Little Gu cried out in pain. Xu Nuo raised his gun and fired. After a few shots, the tentacle broke off with a sound, and the sand dune emitted a dull humming sound.
“Woo—”
The buzzing sound was like some kind of ancient musical instrument, vibrating at an irregular frequency with a low tone, like countless flies flying together.
After listening for a long time, it felt like flies were flying from the soles of my feet to my ears, making me feel restless.
After the buzzing, the pollution value became higher.
Xu Nuo's spiritual tentacles could feel that the guy's hundreds of tentacles hidden in the sand were ready to attack, waiting for her to reveal a flaw due to her irritability.
Pollution fluctuations will attract other mutants and cannot be left for long.
How to solve it?
"Mutant number 176. Like the Lizardman, it was one of the first mutants discovered when pollution first emerged. It uses sand as its shell and hides in the sand all day, foraging for lower-level mutants and lost animals. Once it's full, it will never move again."
The words Wei Yan had said echoed in his ears again.
Amidst the annoying buzzing, Xu Nuo stroked the bird's nape. Tentacles flashed across the sand, and just as they were about to move, the girl's spiritual tentacles suddenly erupted. Countless tentacles coalesced into a massive spiritual entity. With a resounding thud, the entity crashed to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.
The airspace where Xu Nuo was located was covered in sand and dust. The spiritual entity moved casually and in an instant mimicked a big hand, inserting it deeply into the sand like playing with sand. Tiny spiritual tentacles spread out from the entity, entangled the tentacles hidden at the bottom, and pulled them out by the roots.
"Buzz—"
The buzzing of flies in my ears turned into a long, mournful wail. The tentacles stretched out by the giant hand grew longer and longer, until they were suspended more than ten meters in the air. The wet film on their surface was exposed to the scorching desert sun, emitting wisps of mist, and their limbs twisted wildly.
"The core hasn't appeared yet." Xu Nuo's eyes fell on the big hole she had dug.
Every mutant has a core, and only by destroying the core can it be killed. Now these limbs have been baked by the sun and have simply become inactive.
Xiaogu landed slowly, Xu Nuo jumped off the bird, squatted by the pit and looked around.
There was no movement below, and the tentacles were still being held up by her mental power and exposed to the sun, looking powerless.
Her foot on the edge of the pit knocked up some fine sand, which slid down the wall of the pit. This seemed to trigger something, and a lurking tentacle suddenly rose from deep in the sand, aiming at her back and slapping her.
The moment Xu Nuo was pushed down with great force, a bloody mouth opened at the bottom of the pit, with four layers of sharp fangs wide open, emitting a fishy smell and waiting for prey to enter.
"I found you." Xu Nuo raised his gun.
After the gunshot, the girl, suspended in the air, threw away the gun with the empty magazine. Her right hand was still tightly grasped by the bird's claws. She twisted her wrist and said, "Okay, little Gu, your claws are not like when you were little. It hurts now."
Little Gujiujiu protested a few times and put her down.
Xu Nuo took a step forward and looked at the bloody mouth at the bottom of the pit that was blasted by a special bullet. All four layers of fangs were pierced by bullets, revealing the deep red fleshy internal organs behind.
The core of the Yellow Sand Death Bell was in her mouth, she had already defeated it, but this blue flame...
In the center of this fleshy organ, a strange dark blue flame was gradually dissipating.
A strong spiritual power is overflowing.
When Xu Nuo and Qi Qian met "for the first time", the giant transformed walker also had the same flames in its eye sockets. After its death, he collected it in a special container.
Is Qi Qian collecting this spiritual substance for the White Tower Laboratory? It seems that not all mutants can produce this substance.
Xu Nuo thought of Tang Ningyue whom he had met in the laboratory—the S-level guide wearing a white coat and with eyes as bright as the sea.
Thanks to her inspiration and her previous experience purifying Thor with the guides in the White Tower, Xu Nuo had been able to slowly figure out how to materialize her spiritual power during these three months of training. As she continued to condense her spiritual tentacles into physical form, she was even showing signs of breaking through to A-level.
Just one final push away.
In this world, most of the guide sentinels' awakening determines their lifelong level, making it difficult to break through, let alone break through from B level to A level. Her status is truly rare.
Xu Nuo didn't intend to pay any attention to the blue flame. Anyway, the White Tower Laboratory was not her mission. She just wanted to leave the contaminated area as soon as possible.
According to the original plan, when they arrived at the agreed location, Gu Feihai would bring a complete set of self-defense equipment and a communicator that could conceal her breath. After she walked around the edge and completely left Fino's sphere of influence, someone would meet her on the other end of the communicator to help her leave, minimizing the risk of staying in area A01.
But all this was disrupted by Zhou Xuanyi.
Xu Nuo began to suspect that letting her into the contaminated area was also part of the other party's plan.
Fino had been so wary of her some time ago, but this time, from the moment Zhou Xuanyi took him to the cocktail party to the moment he escaped, everything went incredibly smoothly.
But why let her into the contaminated area? Wasn't she a pawn to attract Qi Qian's attention?
She was abandoned? Impossible, Qi Qian hadn't been caught yet. Fino had been planning this for so long, it was impossible for him to give up any chance to catch him.
Then there is only one possibility - letting her out can help them catch Qi Qian.
Moreover, the purpose was to make her think that she had escaped and let down her guard.
Xu Nuo remembered that Zhou Xuanyi suddenly revealed to her three months ago that Wei Yan was Qi Qian.
He acted as if he hoped she would know this so that she would hate Qi Qian and give up the idea of running away. And she did as he wished. After knowing this, she hated Qi Qian so much that she trained desperately, wanting revenge.
But would someone like Zhou Xuanyi just tell her everything about what Fino had done to Qi Qian and his plan to control him just because he let the cat out of the bag?
It won't be that simple.
Xu Nuo thought of something, took off her red dress, spread it on the ground, and began to grope down along the collar. Soon, her hand seemed to touch something, and she tore open the bra pad, and a small black object slipped out from it.
This thing Xu Nuo is very familiar with.
A locator specially made by Fino, with communication monitoring capabilities. It seems their communication base station is well built, and can even receive signals in Area A01.
She continued to check and found five smaller micro positioning devices one after another. She sneered and buried the skirt and the positioning devices deep in the sand.
It was really a work done together with his father.
Zhou Xuanyi probably saw through her intention to escape a long time ago. Even Gu Feihai and Song Ke knew it, so how could a cunning fox like him not know it?
He deliberately showed the heavily guarded border gate and the unguarded staff dormitory near the contaminated area, and told Wei Yan that she was Qi Qian, forcing her to make up her mind to leave the contaminated area. He then trained her to boost her confidence, and used Gu Feihai to provide her with a false route. Finally, the captain of the guard drove her in...
I started planning this three months ago, what a great move.
His purpose was obvious—he wanted her to go deep into the contaminated area without knowing it and without any help. But what was there in the contaminated area that only she could find?
No...he represents Fino, and Fino's target is Qi Qian.
Qi Qian... might be in this polluted area!
This was his last conspiracy. Zhou Xuanyi had anticipated that as long as he sent her into this area, as long as she discovered that Qi Qian might be here, she would not leave.
Yes, that was Qi Qian. He had the locator that he handed to her personally, so he must have known that she was taken away by Fino.
Since he never forgot her during the three years he lost contact, he would definitely come to Fino to find her.
There was no way she would leave him alone in this contaminated area where even S-rank sentinels had to consider carefully.
At the edge of the contaminated area, Fino's temporary command room.
"Master, the red dot hasn't moved for three hours. It might have been killed by a mutant."
Zhou Xuanyi held up his face, twirling a pen with one hand, bored. "Is there any fluctuation in the pollution center?"
"Not yet."
He laughed, a mixture of admiration and regret: "She found out. How smart."
"Master, I need..."
"No need," Zhou Xuanyi raised the tip of his pen and shook it. "The target hasn't taken any action yet, which means she's alive and well."
"He doesn't seem to want to see her. If we wait any longer, she'll be injured and won't be able to hide it anymore."
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