“Uh~~~~!”
Mu Feiluan stood up shakily, holding his dizzy head and looking at Bai Mo. Even though he was defeated, he still maintained his arrogance and disdain in his eyes to hide the shock in his heart.
"Why, you don't dare to kill me? Hehehe~~~"
"I dare not, how dare you fight with me!"
This guy's brain must be made of melted ice.
Bai Mo looked at Mu Feiluan with surprise. He couldn't understand what was going on in this person's train of thought.
"No, only one of you can survive."
"What a cheap trick. You might as well just kill that rubbish Zu Xiangtian. You have a grudge against his Zu family anyway. Oh. I forgot, you don't dare."
"After all, you are a family of ants."
Bai Mo was too lazy to waste any more words with this person. He turned his head towards the wind spirit that was emitting a faint crystal light.
“Puff!!”
Then there was a sound like piercing through tattered leather, accompanied by a handful of scarlet hot blood, and a bear claw holding a heart pierced through Mu Feiluan's chest.
"Zu Xiangtian, you..."
The wide-open eyes gradually lost their luster, and Zu Xiangtian's palm turned into a bear claw and squeezed hard, completely crushing the heart.
"Humph! You are trash!"
Zu Xiangtian, who was shrouded in the brown bear shadow, curled his lips grimly. He withdrew his palm and looked at the remaining two super-class people of the Mu family with a contemptuous smile.
"Let's go!"
He glared at Bai Mo fiercely, and left without hesitation with the only two remaining super-level people.
The two super-class people of the Mu family were still in a state of panic. They had never expected that Zu Xiangtian would be so arbitrary and cruel in breaking up with them.
Obviously, besides killing each other, they can also join forces to escape.
Now there are only two of them left. How can they escape from Bai Mo, who can defeat even the Ice Luan?
The two super-class wizards looked desperate and were about to cast magic to risk their lives.
"You're not leaving?"
"Can you please let us go?" one of the super-class mages asked in disbelief.
"All I want is the life of one of you as the price you should pay. Who knew that before I could finish my words, Zu Xiangtian would take action."
Bai Mo spread his hands and while speaking, he mentally directed Feng Ling to use her psychic power to interfere with the two people's judgment and make his words more convincing.
In fact, Zu Xiangtian's impulsive action just now was the result of the wind spirit silently blowing up the wind that affected his spiritual emotions.
Unless it is a psychic mage, no one will notice it.
It is even more effective on Zu Xiangtian. After all, most of the people in the Zu family are affected by the curse and have abnormal personalities.
"If you want to bury him, I have no objection."
"No, let's go! Now, right now!!"
One of the super-classes said hurriedly, while the other super-classes hurriedly put away Mu Feiluan's body and fled.
After watching the two of them leave, Zhao Manyan came to Bai Mo and sighed:
"That was Mu Feiluan, one of the two proud members of the Mu family. She died just like that."
"Yes, Zu Xiangtian is getting more and more crazy." Bai Mo nodded in agreement.
"I feel something is wrong. Based on your personality, you should kill all these people. It won't affect you if no one sees it." Lingling said as she followed.
"Because it would be more useful to release them given the situation at that time." Bai Mo paused and continued:
"The Mu family has begun to wantonly annex and suppress coastal forces. Although it has not yet spread to the Magic City, I am too lazy to fight them. The Zu family is their opponent."
This sentence was equivalent to directly admitting that it secretly influenced and manipulated the scene just now.
Lingling was wrong about one thing. How could no one see that Bai Hongfei, Mu Nujiao, Lingling, and Zhao Manyan could be considered as his own people, but the other members of the Bai family were not.
If we kill Mu Feiluan and Zu Xiangtian here, the news will definitely leak out, leading to retaliation from the Zu and Mu families.
He is here to solve trouble, not to create more trouble.
It is undoubtedly in his interest to secretly lead the Zu family and the Mu family to the opposite side.
And if he is discovered, it doesn't matter, there is no evidence to prove that he did it.
On the contrary, there were witnesses who proved that the person was killed by Zu Xiangtian.
The danger of being surrounded was lifted, and everyone in the Bai family's team breathed a sigh of relief. Some took a rest, and some recuperated from their wounds.
Bai Mo was listening to Bai Hongfei's explanation of the situation. Zhao Manyan had nothing to do. He glanced around subconsciously and realized something was wrong.
After another glance, I immediately found the problem.
The person is missing!!
"Corpses, Bai Mo, the bodies of the two teams of mages you just killed are gone!!"
Zhao Manyan exclaimed. He immediately threw out two balls of light in his hand, one in the south and one in the north, illuminating the flat sandy land under the sand dune that was bombarded by magic.
The people around were immediately attracted by his words and looked towards the location illuminated by the golden light.
My scalp suddenly felt numb, a shiver spread from my tailbone to the top of my head, and my whole body felt numb as if it were being pricked by needles.
There was nothing above the smooth sand on both sides except for a stretch of pale yellow sand.
The bones that should have been on the sand, either neatly or in pieces, have all disappeared, and even a trace of blood cannot be found.
"What's going on!"
I don't know who cried out in surprise, but the person who had been sitting on the ground to rest with a sigh of relief suddenly jumped up like a spring.
A large number of dead bodies suddenly disappeared!
From the time they died to the time they were noticed to be gone, it was only about five minutes.
This is like a scene from a horror story.
"Prepare your magic, organize your formation, don't panic, I'll take a look at the situation."
Bai Mo's calm voice was clearly heard by everyone, calming down those who were originally a little agitated.
The sound waves expanded in all directions without a trace. Within a radius of more than ten kilometers, there was nothing else except the fleeing mages from the Zu and Mu families.
Suddenly, Bai Mo raised his eyebrows, and the sound waves that swept across the two people from the Mu family felt the pulse from under the sand layer.
It’s very slight, but it’s a lot.
His mind moved, and the sound waves suddenly began to expand from the original depth of five meters underground, and in an instant penetrated a hundred meters.
An image of a large group of toads swimming underground appeared in his mind.
Sands Toad?!
There is no need to guess, the moment you see these golden sand toads, you already have the answer to how the corpses disappeared.
How did these things get out and come here?
A slight doubt arose in Bai Mo's mind, but this did not affect his idea of catching the golden frog.
The Earth Abyss Golden Toad has a strange bone that carries enormous gravitational power, and these warrior-level Golden Sand Toads should also have some of this ability.
Therefore, it is not difficult to produce allochthonous bones with gravitational attraction.
We can capture him for research, or hand him over to the Northwest Military Headquarters for research.
If a result can be really achieved, the Shaqu River Maglev Expressway project may be completed.
"Don't be nervous, there is a demon under the sand."
This made everyone even more nervous.
"They are a group of warrior-level golden sand toads. They have lived in the Shaqu River for a long time. The fact that they can be seen here means that the Shabu pseudo-demon here has disappeared."
Bai Mo described the situation of the monsters under the mud and sand, and warned everyone:
"These demons have some value. They are the source of the gravity of the Shaqu River."
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt his shoulders sink. In the sound perception, the golden sand toads below seemed to have arranged themselves in a special formation, and layers of gravity enveloped him.
This is an attempt to force an attack.
Bai Mo raised his foot and stomped his feet hard, and a colorful Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams spread out from his body.
"Gen - Split the land and seal the borders!"
The Gen position in the northeast suddenly shone brightly, covering the entire Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams diagram in an instant. The heavy dark golden earth power covered an area of one kilometer in an instant.
The entire sand dune turned dark gold, and everyone felt that the heavy gravity on their bodies suddenly disappeared!
As the dark golden earth territory passed by, golden sand toads appeared on the ground one after another.
It was as if they had been driven out from the very earth they were treading on, and they were powerless to reenter the dust.
Suddenly, the panicked croaking sounds of frogs were heard everywhere.
But the many magicians of the Bai family, who had already listened to Bai Mo's description of the situation, would not panic. They cast the magic spells they had prepared in an instant.
Toads died in large numbers in the magic bombardment. Under the suppression of the Bagua diagram, these warriors could only exert 70% of their full strength and were wiped out in an instant.
A group of people worked together to find the strange bones from among the numerous golden sand toad corpses, and then under the leadership of Bai Hongfei, they began to repair the wall of fear and expand the land.
Bai Mo returned to Shaqu River, found Daju, and replaced Bai Zangfeng and other Sky Eagle mages.
It was not until dawn that Daju finished digesting the food.
"Come on, let's try it out and see if there are any changes."
Bai Mo said softly, stroking its bright yellow fur which seemed to become even more brilliant.
“Roar!!”
The big orange cat roared excitedly, and its fur lit up. Then Bai Mo felt a strong suction force coming from it, and the hand that had just touched its fur stuck to its body uncontrollably.
gravitational?!
Bai Mo's eyes flashed, and he immediately understood what Daju had obtained.
He nodded with satisfaction, and then the moonlight flashed in his hand and he put it away.
After driving away the Mu family and the Zu family, the team of magicians who still had ideas about cleaning up the Shaqu River Plain no longer posed a threat to Bai Mo.
It took three days to clean up the entire plain, and then the tasks of cleaning up the Shaqu River Plain and finding the cause of the gravity of the Shaqu River were submitted at the same time.
The Bai family obtained their first mission merit here, S level.
This is the result of combining two tasks into one.
The things that can be exchanged for S-level merits are very precious, such as the mining and construction rights of Yunshan City.
Yunshan City is the name of the resource-based city that the Northwest government plans to build in the Daxishan Mountains.
Although it may sound a bit narcissistic to think so, Bai Mo feels that this name may have something to do with him.
In short, he has successfully achieved his goal and obtained the right to participate in the construction of a city.
This means that after Yunshan City is established, the Bai family will have great convenience in running for mayor or president of the Magic Association, as well as in mining and distributing mineral resources around the city.
"S-level merits cannot be exchanged for multiple items at once. If we want to see Jing Ling, we have to complete another task."
Lingling rested her chin on her hand, browsed through the task list, and said slowly:
"Based on our next two tasks, S-level tasks should not exist. At most, we can reach A-level and then use A-level to synthesize. However, only one B-level merit is enough for the token."
Nodding slightly, Bai Mo also understood this and stared at the task panel. Suddenly, a new task caught his eye.
The Shaqu River research team disappeared near Tianshan Mountains in the northern section of the Shaqu River. Please go and investigate.
"That's it." Bai Mo showed the task to the two of them.
If he remembered correctly, Nan Jue was also in the Shaqu River research team, which was quite important to the Northwest government.
After all, many things regarding the construction of the Northwest and the utilization of resources are planned and researched by these researchers.
"Going to Shaqu River again?"
Zhao Manyan shouted.
"You don't have to follow me this time. Of course, if you're willing, I'll just pretend I didn't say anything." Bai Mo said.
"Well, now that I'm here, I might as well follow you guys."
In fact, he also needs to fight to quickly improve his cultivation.
"But then again, are you so confident in handing over the construction of your Bai family to your cousin?"
"Everyone does their job. I can manage it, but that would be a waste of energy."
Bai Mo glanced at him and walked out with a few people.
They arrived at the Shaqu River with ease. Because the golden sand toads had been wiped out in the river, they simply headed north along the river to search.
All the way to the end of the northern section of the Shaqu River, there was no trace of the military magician.
"There are no marks or traces of battle. They probably didn't encounter any monsters." Lingling took off her glasses and said straight-facedly:
"Of course, it's also possible that they encountered a very powerful demon and they couldn't react."
"According to intelligence, the research team has a super-class officer in charge, so it's unlikely that they will be eliminated all at once."
Bai Mo rejected this speculation, and then thought about it and took out the information about this research team provided by the military magician.
"Two days ago, the team had contact with the troops. Maybe they encountered something yesterday, or maybe after the contact."
Hearing this, Lingling nodded slightly, "You have almost cleared out all the demons around here, so it is impossible for demons to exist."
She groaned for a moment, looked at the endless yellow sand around her, and suddenly her eyes lit up, and she said:
"Maybe I know where they went?"
"where?"
"Underfoot."
Lingling stepped on the sand and continued, "We were conducting an aerial search before and didn't pay attention to where we were standing.
When I was researching the Northwest Desert, I noticed a dangerous phenomenon: sand pits. "
Hearing this, Mu Nujiao asked, "What is a sand cave?"
"Sand shrinks when it encounters water. If the water comes from underground, the sand in the desert will collapse, and people walking on it may suddenly be swallowed by the sand."
Lingling explained, "You can imagine the sand hole as a trap with a camouflaged surface. Once something passes through it, the surface sand will collapse and the person will fall into the trap."
"Swallowed by the sand" Mu Nujiao glanced down at her feet with a somewhat uncertain look.
"We are all mages, so the research team should have no shortage of earth-type mages. Even if we fall into a trap, we won't be unable to get out."
"Yes, where does the water come from in the desert?" Zhao Manyan also pointed out the problem.
"The trap is just a metaphor. In fact, the sand pit may exist for a long time, even hundreds of meters underground, slowly hollowing out the sand in an area. The research team may have fallen hundreds of meters underground, or directly into a water source."
After saying this, she glanced at Zhao Manyan and pointed at the nearby Tianshan Mountain with her chin.
"There is no shortage of water sources near the Tianshan Mountains, and there may even be underground rivers."
After listening to her analysis, several people couldn't help but believe it. Bai Mo said:
"If they are just trapped underground or in underground caves or rivers, I can go down and look for them, but the desert is too large."
Having said that, he looked at Lingling.
"Lingling, do you have a way to find the approximate location where they disappeared? It's just that the northern section of the Shaqu River is a bit too large."
"Yes, based on the contact information of the research team provided by the military law, it is not difficult to calculate where the research team went before it disappeared."
Lingling nodded, took out a tablet, and without doing any data processing, she found the place through mental arithmetic and deduction.
Marking a spot on the tablet, she handed it to Bai Mo.
"Let's go over there."
After a glance, he saw that they were already near the northern end of the Shaqu River. He called out Daju, and the group headed towards their destination along the river.
It didn't take long for them to arrive at the place. The terrain in the desert was the same. Bai Mo signaled Daju to stop.
The big orange horse changed from running to walking slowly. Just after taking a few steps, the people sitting on its back felt a strong sense of weightlessness.
“Roar!!”
With a roar, golden light flashed on his body, and Daju was about to control the sand to freeze himself.
Bai Mo reacted quickly and realized that it was impossible for the sand pit to swallow such a huge monster in a short time due to its swallowing capacity.
"Let's go down!"
As he spoke, he had already put the big orange away, and the piece below appeared in front of everyone.
The rolling mud and sand were like a whirlpool of river water, constantly flowing and collapsing in one place after another.
Zhao Manyan put shields on the four people, and the next moment, they fell into the eye of the vortex.
As soon as I came in, I was surrounded by the flowing mud and sand, some of which were dry, some were wet,
And above their heads, rolling sand was still falling.
“We won’t be buried alive, will we?!” Zhao Manyan shouted.
"Don't worry, just follow the sand, I'll keep an eye on you."
Bai Mo said calmly. The surface of his body was already covered by the sticky and cold quicksand. The current pressure was not enough to break Zhao Manyan's defense, but it just gave him a feeling of being carried away.
At the same time, he was constantly using sound strings to detect the surrounding situation and using telekinesis to adjust the direction of several people to ensure that they would not get separated.
The whole process of being carried downward by the quicksand was not slow. Instead, the further down they went, the faster they went. It was as if there was a bottomless abyss underground that was swallowing up everything above.
Pah pah pah pah!!
The sound of people falling into the water came into his ears, and then a feeling of weightlessness came again. He turned over as if he had been prepared, and his feet were firmly on the water below.
By the way, he reached out and hugged Lingling and Mu Nujiao who fell down next.
"Oh my god, you forget your principles for the sake of beauty, you forget your principles for the sake of beauty!!"
Ignoring the shouting of a golden retriever after it escaped from the mud, a ball of fire lit up beside Bai Mo, illuminating the surroundings.
Looking around, he raised his eyebrows slightly.
This is indeed an underground cave river. The walls, which have been bitten by sand countless times, seem as strong as black iron, and there is even some moss growing on them.
The cave is five or six meters wide, with a muddy stream flowing southward in the middle and sinking into the sand wall.
To the south was a deep, dark passage. Through the feedback from the strings, he knew that the end was two hundred meters ahead.
But at least I found the person.
He heard a slight breathing sound over there.
Walking over with the firelight, I saw a rough-faced man lying flat on the ground with his eyes closed.
This is a military magician.
"His arm bones were broken and his sternum was also sunken, probably due to the impact of quicksand."
As a plant-based mage, Mu Nujiao was also half a doctor, and she made a judgment after just two glances.
She stretched out her hand and lightly touched it, and several flowers grew out of the broken bones of the military mage's arm.
Then, hook-like strands of grass began to grow on his chest.
"The elderflower and the sun grass should be able to help him recover. Just give him some blood potion."
As soon as she finished her words, a scream of pain came from the military magician's mouth, and beads of sweat appeared on his hideous face at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“Does it hurt so much?” Zhao Manyan sighed twice and took advantage of the military mage’s open mouth to pour the blood potion into his mouth.
Bai Mo glanced at him at this time.
After he recovered, Bai Mo asked some questions and roughly understood the outcome of the matter.
The research team was indeed swallowed by the sand pit, but they dispersed halfway.
The military magician didn't know where the others were either.
"Where's the communicator? Can I use it?"
The military magician tried but didn't receive any signal, and the voice message he sent out fell on deaf ears.
"Forget it, I'll go find it myself."
Bai Mo had been searching throughout the descent, but found no bodies or debris.
The sound strings were released and entered the sand wall outside the cave, continuously transmitting information from the surroundings back.
Soon, he found the person.
There is another cave three hundred meters away, where there are two people.
"I found two. I'll go pick them up."
As Bai Mo spoke, his figure disappeared. When he reappeared, he was accompanied by two researchers with elegant temperaments.
Without further ado, he continued his search.
Following the flow of the water, he discovered that there was a cave every few hundred meters, and it didn't take long for him to find the other team members.
When he saw Nan Jue, she was sleeping, and Bai Mo's appearance immediately woke her up.
"It's a bit embarrassing."
He glanced at Nanjue's clothes, which were still wet and covered in mud and sand.
"I found my teammates, but couldn't get through, so I tried to take the water route, but the water route was blocked, and that's what happened."
"Let's go, I've found your teammates."
Bai Mo followed and put one hand on her shoulder. The fire magic energy instantly evaporated her clothes. His figure flashed and appeared next to Mu Nujiao.
He used teleportation to lead everyone out. He did not chat much with Nan Jue and returned to the fortress city to submit the mission.
He could not wait to see Jing Ling. (End of this chapter)
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