Chapter 215 Strange Purple Spots
Wei Huan stayed in this area for most of the day and only sent out the undead army to check the changes ahead.
But before he knew it, Wei Huan came to his senses and found that the leaves around him had also started to turn purple without him noticing.
It is obvious that these purple pollutants are probably spreading.
Wei Huan retreated another three hundred miles, wondering what the purpose of this assessment was. Was it to protect nature? To have them discover the true nature of the purple and heal the forest?
Although it was a very unoriginal guess, considering all the tests in the challenge world, they were all easy to understand. They never played with IQ, but just improved human beings in the most direct way. So Wei Huan felt that his guess should be almost right.
But there was no way he could go deep into the purple depths and risk getting infected.
Just like that, he didn't stay here for long before the purple color spread into his vision again.
When retreating again this time, Wei Huan met a black man whom he had not wanted to deal with before.
He was a hunter, a Sequence Five Summoning Master.
Among his summons was a snow ape that was good at climbing, which should be a summon from the fourth-level world.
It was this snow ape that easily carried him to the top of the tree. After spotting Wei Huan, who had returned, he once again enthusiastically waved his hands and shouted, "Hello, Colonel Wei! I'm the driver from Ganguly, my name is Jones!"
Wei Huan thought about it, and Dian Ma floated in front of Jones under his command.
Jones was very excited when he saw Wei Huan coming. He was talking and gesticulating. Wei Huan knew that the Congolese language had its own rhythm, like singing, so Congolese people were also good at dancing.
But Challenge World helped him translate, and the way Jones danced while speaking Daxia dialect was very strange.
Wei Huan withdrew his gaze from the face of the gorilla dancing with him, and finally looked at Jones: "There is something unusual up ahead, do you know the reason?"
He knew this was what Jones wanted to ask, but unfortunately he didn't know the truth either.
Jones scratched his head. "The trees in this forest are too dense. We can't move very fast. Are you saying the anomaly is related to the red light?"
After saying that, Jones pointed to the sky, then took his hand back, placed it on his chest, and lowered his head as if praying.
When he looked up again, he said, "Colonel Wei, I want to follow you. I don't want to gain anything from this test. It's just that when the light comes on, I am the most suitable person to enter. This test doesn't look good. I just hope to survive."
The pledge of loyalty was too simple, but Wei Huan knew that the other party was sincere.
In fact, in a challenging world, apart from the fierce competition among a few powerful nations, most countries passively participate and take sides. For them, following a responsible leader is more important than becoming the king themselves.
The main thing is that no matter how strong you are, you can never defeat the country.
It’s Wei Huan. First, it’s because the country is strong and focuses on training him that he can grow so quickly. And when necessary, he has the support of the country, so he can realize his so-called ideal.
If he had not been born in Daxia, but was a captain of some small country, he would probably still be struggling to collect resources in the third or fourth level world, thinking about how to survive in the cracks between big countries, and trying to realize his so-called ideals.
Wei Huan, who has the support of the country, understands very well the reasons why these small countries choose to surrender. It is not complicated and there is not much conspiracy.
I just hope to be protected by him and do some work for him without being sent to die.
Wei Huan's mind moved, and a female ground-blood beast floated over and hovered in front of Jones.
Jones was overjoyed and quickly collected his other summons. He only took the snow ape that could dance with him and jumped onto the back of the female ground snow beast.
"Thank you, Colonel Wei. I obtained this colossus half a month ago when I was exploring the ruins in the fourth-level world. Now it's just the right time to present it to you. I wish you eternal strength."
He was a sensible man and immediately submitted his "letter of surrender".
Although Wei Huan did not covet the giant statue in his hands, he could not expect to seek his protection by simply flattering him.
Asylum is essentially a transaction.
Besides, if this test is to gather all the colossi, facing the possible fighting and scrambles, this guy also made a very correct decision.
Wei Huan did not refuse and took the giant statue in his hand.
Jones's colossus, smaller than his, only the size of a fist, was also round and also floated in the air.
Wei Huan summoned the giant statue he owned, originally just to give it a try, but when the two giant statues came into contact with each other, the seemingly hard giant statue turned out to be like two water droplets, one large and one small, fused together.
The Colossus is slightly larger.
This scene made Wei Huan and Jones open their eyes wide at the same time.
Then Wei Huan looked at Jones meaningfully: "Did you know this would happen?"
Jones shook his head, as if dancing, his gorilla accompanying him. "Colonel Wei, who was completely unaware of this, please believe me. Too many people have died since the advent of Challenge World. My parents died in the assessment, and on the battlefield, deaths are constant. I don't want any more deaths. I truly hope this is a nightmare. You are destined to be the hope of our human race. If this assessment brings any benefit, I hope it will be the beacon you light. Please take me away from here after the assessment is completed. You must believe in my sincerity."
"..." Wei Huan wondered if he had just listened to a rap with hand gestures. In short, this guy's words were a bit irresistible. After carefully thinking about the deep meaning of his words, Wei Huan believed that he was sincere.
It's just... a little outrageous.
But what he said is indeed a direction. Is it really possible to collect all the colossi before being infected?
Thinking of this, Wei Huan thought about the purple spots that were spreading and knew that he didn't have much time left.
He said only one word: "Go."
Then the undead army began to advance at full speed in the direction they came from.
Soon, the undead army found another target.
On the way here, he saw the third human examiner.
This is a hot woman with brown-red hair. She comes from the south of the continent of Osham, where druids are "abundant", so she is also a druid.
She turned into a hawk and was stopped by the army of undead.
The red-haired woman, surrounded by the undead, looked at the dancing Jones with a cold face and said, "If this is what this test is like, we should fully support the hope of mankind. The great one sitting high on the throne can lead us to escape from here."
Wei Huan: “…”
Red-haired woman: "..."
The red-haired woman then said, "Colonel Wei, I don't know the purpose of this assessment, but I also want to fight for my hometown with all my strength. Please allow me to check the abnormalities ahead. I will make a decision as soon as possible."
Jones wanted to rap, but Wei Huan raised his hand to stop him. The way this guy spoke was very embarrassing, so he should just let him speak.
Wei Huan said, "If you change your mind, just fly back. I'll give you half an hour."
"Thank you." The red-haired woman nodded gratefully, jumped up from the treetop, rolled over and turned into a red-haired falcon, and flew away in the blink of an eye.
Going further, I met another examiner who also didn't make a decision immediately, but also maintained a friendly attitude and said that they had to wait until they saw it with their own eyes.
Wei Huan did not force it.
In fact, he had no idea what this assessment was about, but he felt that this method of collecting all the fragments did not look like an assessment. However, he could not figure out why he had this idea.
There is no need to force it if you can't figure it out. It's just an attempt. If it succeeds, that's great, but if it doesn't, you can't let yourself get stuck. The key is to get back safely.
Wei Huan did not take the risk easily and continued to walk in the opposite direction of the purple spread. However, this time he walked a little slower, mainly because he promised the red-haired woman that he would wait for her for half an hour.
However, as he walked further, Wei Huan no longer saw the fourth person he had met when he came.
The summoning distance is 15 kilometers, and the radiation is 30 kilometers left and right, but no one is seen. Where did this guy go?
Wei Huan didn't think much about it. It wasn't necessary for him to find the other party, and the fusion colossus was dispensable. On the contrary, now that he was almost back to where he started, this made him curious.
How big is the trial ground I am in?
Judging from the car's speed of about 2000 kilometers per hour, he has traveled about 3000 kilometers since he decided to go back. This distance is about one-third the size of Daxia.
Compared to the vastness of the Challenge World, it's certainly small, but if you really want to find someone to collect Colossi, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
It would be the same even if he had the undead to lead the way.
Wei Huan continued to walk further away. After about half an hour, the red-haired woman did not come to him. He looked at the endless green forest in front of him and thought about speeding up and continuing to move forward in a straight line.
Jones naturally didn't say anything, but just followed him quietly. However, the snow ape he summoned walked back and forth on the back of the ground beast, always curious about the forest under its feet.
In this way, they walked for about an hour, a total of about 6,000 kilometers. Wei Huan looked at the scene ahead and ordered Dianma to stop.
It's the end.
A thick white fog appeared between the sky and the earth in front, blocking the way ahead like a wall. Even the red light that had extended here obviously stopped in front of the wall.
Wei Huan ordered the ghost crows to pass through, but they were unable to penetrate.
He also ordered the Facehuggers and the Earthbeasts to attack one after another, but neither could cause any damage to the wall.
After trying everything, Wei Huan came to the front of the thick fog and cautiously raised his hand to touch it.
It felt as soft as it looked, and if he pressed hard his palm could sink half an inch, but he couldn't break through and get in. The undead had already tried, so he didn't need to try again.
Wei Huan pursed his lips, lowered his eyes and thought for a few seconds, then turned over and returned to the bone throne.
"Go, keep walking along the wall."
Looking at the blood-red sky above his head, a gloom shrouded Wei Huan's heart.
If this trial site was blocked, they would probably have to face those purple spots in the end.
Although he didn't know what it was, it was clearly dangerous. Wei Huan had no interest in trying to see what the consequences would be for a human body infected with purple spots. Therefore, the most urgent task now was to find the entrance and exit of this trial site. If they could get in, they could certainly get out.
Dian Ma floated in the air, and its six legs rotated like propellers, reaching the fastest speed, exceeding 2,000 kilometers per hour.
Time passed minute by minute. Wei Huan didn't know how long he had been searching, but all he saw was a wall of fog.
At a certain moment, he suddenly came back to his senses and found that he seemed to be back to the starting point.
When he left, he tied a blue ribbon on the most conspicuous tree. Now he saw the ribbon fluttering in the wind again.
Wei Huan's heart sank.
It turns out that the world is like an upside-down bowl, and they are trapped inside.
The most important thing is that although this is called a trial ground, there is absolutely no information about the trial.
Does he still have to face those ominous-looking purple spots?
Wei Huan is really afraid of death.
He was afraid that he would not be able to save humanity, and that his rare chance of rebirth would be wasted. He did not want to put himself in danger.
Even though his heart told him that he should go to the place where the change happened, he didn't want to take the risk.
Time passes by every second.
Wei Huan and his soul floated in the void for who knows how long... maybe ten minutes, or half an hour. Wei Huan looked at the red and purple sky and finally sighed.
He has nowhere to go, doesn't he?
Wait for others to create miracles?
It felt terrible to pin one's hopes of survival on someone else. Wei Huan frowned and looked at Jones: "I'm going to a dangerous place. It's up to you to decide."
Jones nodded. "I will always be at your side."
He knew very well that leaving Wei Huan and acting alone would not be any better.
If anyone could win this assessment, he only believed that Wei Huan would be the winner.
Wei Huan didn't care about Jones's flattery and had no interest in talking to him. He gave orders in his mind, ordering the undead army to go back again.
There is no other choice now. Since there is no way to retreat, let's move forward and let him see what this assessment is about.
This time, Wei Huan only walked forward about a thousand kilometers before he saw the purple spots that had spread here.
The purple spots on the leaves have a faint fluorescence, and from a distance they look like falling starlight, beautiful and dreamy.
This time Wei Huan decided to go in directly, but just after he took a few meters, Sister Ya appeared in a flash and gave him the latest news.
After hearing this, Wei Huan withdrew from the range of the purple spots and flew quickly to the left under Jones's confused gaze.
Soon he saw the person in the information reported by Sister Crow.
The red-haired woman is here.
The red-haired woman had known that Wei Huan was coming from the appearance of the undead army, so when she saw Wei Huan, she said calmly, "Hello, Colonel Wei."
Wei Huan nodded: "Did you find anything?"
The red-haired woman's smile turned bitter. She raised her arm and said, "These purple spots are contagious to humans. Just now they looked only the size of a grain of rice, but now they have expanded a hundred times."
Wei Huan saw that most of her elbows had turned purple.
Visually it looks bad, and it is true.
The red-haired woman touched the purple part with her hand, and when she lifted her fingertips, they were also dyed purple, like purple oil painting cream, indicating that her arm was thinning.
Jones' eyes widened. "Oh, God."
When he looked at the purple spots again, his expression became extremely terrified.
Wei Huan also frowned: "What do you feel?"
The red-haired woman remained calm. "The truth is, I don't feel anything."
Wei Huan was silent for a few seconds, then asked, "Did you see anyone else?"
"I'm already inside. I wanted to come out to find you, but my arm is contaminated and I can't fly anymore."
Wei Huan raised his eyebrows.
The red-haired woman looked down at her purple arms and said, "This is my wing. It's gone soft now."
Wei Huan fell silent again, looking at the purple spots that were still spreading outwards.
No one else dared to disturb him and just waited silently.
After a while, the result he was waiting for came out.
A group of undead who had been ordered by him to go deep into the purple spots just now, when they reappeared, their bodies were also stained with purple spots. Unexpectedly, the undead were not immune.
Wei Huan sent these undead spirits back to the tomb, and when they came out, there were still purple spots on their bodies.
Then he chose to kill them. They were besieged and torn into pieces by other undead and summoned out from the tomb again, but this time there were no purple spots.
Wei Huan's eyes lit up.
Naturally, others also saw what Wei Huan was trying.
Jones exclaimed excitedly: "You found a solution to the crisis."
The red-haired woman gave a bitter smile and raised her arms. "It's a pity I can't start over."
Wei Huan ignored the two people. The resurrection of the undead without purple spots gave him an idea. He ordered Dian Ma to return to the tomb and then recruited three female earth beasts.
The female Earth Beast, including its long legs, was 12 meters tall and had a thick back shell. In the past, Wei Huan had always used the female Earth Beast as a mount. However, this time, he chose to sit under the belly of the female Earth Beast instead of on its back.
The abdominal cavity of a female geobeast leads to a personal space that only this tribe can develop in. It is filled with facehuggers and is theoretically a very scary place.
But those were other underground beasts, not the undead recruited by Wei Huan. Wei Huan came to the bottom of the abdominal cavity, where the entrance of the passage was, which was the gap between two time and space.
The facehugger was already there, having woven its arms and legs into a swing-like seat.
Wei Huan sat here, in a semi-space position, and at the same time in the transparent bubble of the earth beast, which might be able to avoid the erosion of the purple spot infection.
Before going deep into the core area, he only needs to constantly replace the undead that he uses for transportation.
Jones and the red-haired woman also got their own exclusive mounts, but compared to the always excited Jones, the red-haired woman was always depressed.
She looked at her purple arms, perhaps regretting not following Wei Huan directly before.
The facehugger flew into the contaminated area. After a moment of silence, Wei Huan said, "The purple spots aren't part of the assessment, but rather an environment we must deal with. Anyway, let's take a deeper look first."
This statement still received a positive response from Jones, while the red-haired woman remained silent.
However, Wei Huan's method is effective.
By constantly replacing the infected undead, Wei Huan walked forward for a long time and his body was clean, and the same was true for Jones.
Another example is the red-haired woman. Her purple spots have not spread during this period of time, which has rekindled hope in her eyes.
"Colonel Wei hasn't introduced himself yet. I'm from Mexico and my name is Cynthia."
Wei Huan had an idea and ordered the facehugger carrying Cynthia to come closer to him.
Cynthia explained her situation and said, "It seems these purple spots won't spread simply within the human body. The infected person must be exposed to that kind of environment for their condition to worsen."
Wei Huan nodded. This was the reason why he did not act rashly. Only by making plans carefully before taking action could he gain more initiative.
Cynthia thought the conversation was now open, so she continued, "What intelligence have you gathered? Can you share it?"
Wei Huan said: "I went to the border, and at the moment, it seems that there is no way out of here, and there are no clues."
"Wow!" Cynthia exclaimed, her response irrelevant to the question. "You're actually sharing information with me? Honestly, I'm being quite presumptuous. Having your protection, you're still sharing information with me."
Wei Huan seemed to be "enlightened" and thought of something in a trance, but when he thought about it carefully, he found that he had no clue.
Just when Cynthia was trying to get close to Wei Huan, their progress suddenly stopped. Then, after seeing the scene in front of her, Cynthia suddenly covered her mouth.
"ah!"
Still, some sounds leaked out from between his fingers uncontrollably.
It turned out that two facehuggers were carrying something and flying up from the forest.
It's a person.
However, this person's entire body had turned purple, and his face was unrecognizable. It was impossible to tell whether he was a man or a woman. When he was pulled into the air, his entire body was stretched like a ball of purple crystal mud, more than ten meters long, and it seemed like it would break at any time.
The rich purple color was hard to see through, but I guess the color of the internal organs had also become the same.
This sight was so terrifying that even the most experienced challengers felt their stomachs churn.
Cynthia even saw her own future in this person, which made her extremely frightened. When she touched the purple on her arm, her face became tense.
"He's still alive." Wei Huan said, "The purple spots have changed his life form, but he's still alive."
The clothes that the undead took out from the forest later also proved his identity. It was the examiner he had seen before but had not found when he came back.
It seems that he has some special way of moving, which is faster than Cynthia's flying speed. He has already penetrated deep into here, but can't move forward anymore.
The time was right, Wei Huan summoned a new batch of earth beasts, and everyone got on board, including the transformed person.
The replaced earth beasts were killed on the spot, and when they were resurrected at the resurrection point in Wei Huan's tomb, they were normal.
Presumably, if the infected humans were to be resurrected from the dead, the infection of these purple spots could probably be eliminated, but how could humans be resurrected from the dead?
Wei Huan, who had no solution for the time being, decided to save as many people as possible. As long as the person was alive, it meant there was still a chance.
Anyway, his undead can easily keep up with the consumption.
In addition, after this man's body turned purple, his giant statue also fell down.
After the undead army got the colossus, they gave it to Wei Huan, who integrated it into his own colossus, making it even bigger.
Cynthia noticed this change and looked at Jones again. A struggle was evident on her face. Finally, she reluctantly handed the Colossus to Wei Huan and said, "Thank you for your protection. Without you, I would have ended up like him. If the purpose of this assessment is to collect the Colossus, please do not refuse. I hope more than anyone else that you, the merciful one, will win."
Wei Huan did not refuse.
At present, it seems that the colossus that can be fused may be the purpose of this assessment. Of course, Wei Huan still feels that something is wrong, but this is the only way now.
Cynthia watched as her own colossus merged into Wei Huan's colossus. She bit her lip and lowered her eyes to hide her thoughts.
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