Chapter 224 Hunting Down Denton
The assessment has reached this point, and the next step is actually very simple.
They brought the ancient sailboats of the Mu Ri and Mu Yue tribes. Judging from the strong purification ability of the ancient sailboats, it was obvious that their next task would be to purify the sapling.
The entire assessment task is actually very simple, but it also hides huge dangers.
If they had chosen to kill each other from the beginning, I'm afraid this mission would have a different solution.
Wei Huan was not sure whether killing could lead to a better way out, but he liked the current result. The vitality of mankind was preserved, and the participants had more or less adventures. As for himself, it seemed that he had obtained something different.
I have a clear conscience and everyone is happy.
Wei Huan and Captain Fang dug out the saplings together.
After seeing the grown sacred tree, Wei Huan was certain that this sapling and the fallen object were not together.
The sacred tree in its sapling stage only relied on a little loose soil to survive. As if trying to test the water, one of its roots gently touched the black stone with magic patterns painted on it. The root that was in contact with the black stone was contaminated and turned purple.
The purple color was blocked as it spread from the roots to the lower part of the trunk, and because Captain Fang continued to purify it, the purple color faded a lot more than he remembered.
The sacred tree that had grown in the memory, probably in order to survive, had been trying to absorb nutrients from the black stone while also fighting against the pollution, until a critical point that it could no longer bear was reached, and it was eventually contaminated.
But even though it is polluted like a ghost tree, the core of this tree still retains the purest natural power and is working hard to protect the Sun-Mu Clan and the Moon-Mu Clan.
Thinking of the mad high priest of the Muyue tribe, Wei Huan felt a little depressed.
Captain Fang seemed to know what Wei Huan was thinking and said, "When people have nothing, they may go from one extreme to another. The fate of the Mu Ri and Mu Yue tribes was determined from the beginning. It seems that the existence of this tree and this fallen object is obviously longer than that of these two tribes."
Wei Huan nodded. He knew it, but after all, he had seen it with his own eyes, so it would always leave some impression.
Not wanting to let his thoughts sink in, Wei Huan saw Captain Fang standing up with the sapling in his arms, still using his aura to purify it. He looked around and asked, "Where's Jacques?"
Speaking of this, Captain Fang frowned slightly: "Not long ago, Jacques came to me and told me that he had discovered something unusual and had tracked it down."
"abnormal?"
"Some fresh traces. People are already here, and those traces are very deliberate."
Wei Huan nodded. It was not that he was not curious, but saving the sacred tree seedling was more important at the moment.
He called over a facehugger and asked Captain Fang to step on it. Captain Fang was not used to it, but it was too far to get out from here, and the road was steep and narrow. The facehugger was indeed the best means of transportation.
They sat cross-legged on the back of the facehugger without saying a word. It took them a long time to reach the exit.
But there was no one at the exit.
Wei Huan and Captain Fang looked at each other in confusion.
It shouldn't be.
At the beginning, everyone knew that practicing next to the sacred tree sapling could achieve twice the result with half the effort, but the enclosed space hundreds of miles deep underground was still too depressing. Later, only Captain Fang was left.
When Wei Huan came back not long ago, the first thing he saw was these challengers gathered near the exit.
Now none of them are there.
Not only were they missing, but the ancient sailboat of Agris and the Mu Yue tribe under her control also did not return.
Was this an accident?
"I'll go and take a look." Wei Huan said.
Captain Fang nodded. He simply chose to sit cross-legged on the spot, holding the sacred tree sapling against his chest. With a "clang" sound, the halo opened, illuminating his face with a bright and compassionate look.
The divine power made Wei Huan feel uncomfortable, so he left without saying anything.
The ghost crows were dispersed, and Wei Huan flew on the back of the ground beast. After searching for more than ten minutes, a loud bang suddenly sounded in the distance. Wei Huan looked up and saw rising smoke.
There was no need for the Ghost Crow to come back and report. Wei Huan ordered the Earth Beast to rush over at full speed.
As he got closer, he realized that everyone had gathered here.
And this place... Wei Huan looked at it from afar and felt that it looked familiar. After thinking about it, he realized that this was not the gate that the giants of the Mu Ri tribe led them in.
But now there is no gate here, only a deep and huge crack, like two huge rocks ten thousand meters long put together to form a "human" shape. After a little repair, it is indeed the same as in my memory.
Agris was with Jacques, and behind them were the five men from Osham.
The four captains of Daxia stood together.
The others stood on the opposite side. The three parties seemed to have fought several battles and were all a little embarrassed.
The noise of Wei Huan's approach startled them. Agris was the first to shout, "Wei Huan, come and judge! Everyone saw the fruit disappear right before our eyes, and they're saying I took it!"
Liaf frowned and said, "The fruit wouldn't disappear for no reason. You were the only one near it at the time. If not you, who was it?"
"I already said it wasn't me. Isn't my name, Agris, enough to guarantee it? It disappeared before my eyes, and I didn't get a single one. This is not only a crime."
"So what if you're Agris? We all know what these six fruits represent. I don't believe you don't want to keep them all for yourself."
"Everyone wants it, but I..." Agris suddenly realized and stamped his feet in anger, "I said I didn't take it. If you don't believe me, come and fight! If you have the guts to kill me, the things are yours."
"Wei Huan, he admitted that she took it!"
Wei Huan finally looked at Captain Liu.
Captain Liu and his four companions simply bypassed the two opposing teams and headed towards Wei Huan, saying, "We were too far away at the time and didn't see anything."
Wei Huan chose to remain silent. There was no way to resolve this kind of matter. Without witnesses or evidence, it would be a case without a clear head.
However, Wei Huan thought that he had traveled through time and that they had obviously traveled through time as well. Then he thought about the so-called disappeared fruit. Is it possible...
"Agris, can you still see the ship?" Wei Huan didn't want to get involved in this lawsuit. He wanted to complete the assessment more.
Agris was stunned for a moment, as if he just realized: "Where is this?"
Wei Huan said, "We have returned from the future to the present. The Mu Yue tribe's ship can purify the sacred tree. I need you to return to that ship."
Agris's face turned pale: "We are back, what should we do now?"
Wei Huan said, "Perhaps if you walk back from here to the sacred tree, you can enter the correct time point."
"Okay." Agris turned to leave.
"Stop." Liaf did not let her go. "Don't think about taking the fruit for yourself."
"Get out of here!" Agris finally got angry, her body suddenly turned red, and then blood shadows rushed out of her body, like sharp flying knives cutting towards Liaf.
Liaf responded hastily, using Fire Escape to block the blood shadow's attack. He just shouted, "Agris, you..."
"Bang!" Then all the blood shadows merged into one in an instant, turning into a man with a clear figure. He kicked Liaf's blood shield into pieces with one foot, kicked him more than a hundred meters away, and hit the black stone, causing a collapse with a loud bang.
Wei Huan's eyes fell on the man who suddenly appeared.
The man was wearing an evening suit and a scarlet cape draped behind him, fluttering in the wind.
Wei Huan felt a sense of threat from this man.
This must be the rumored "Vampire Count" of Agris, a man with extremely strong individual combat power and also possessing the characteristics of immortality. He was condensed from the abilities of Agris.
His appearance is different from Jacques's. He is so handsome that even men cannot point out any imperfections in him. His appearance only exists in human imagination.
The enraged Agris almost killed Liaf instantly with one move, instantly shocking the others.
Later, when Agris let the vampire count carry him away in a "princess hug", no one else dared to ask him to stay.
Jacques shook his head and chuckled, then summoned Nightmare and rode after him.
Following them were several drivers of Osam, and Wei Huan and others who followed closely behind.
They chose to enter the passage again, trying to replicate the route they would take in the future and return to that point in time.
But there had just been a landslide here, and there were too many fallen rocks, so the further in we went, the harder it was to find a foothold.
"The person is missing?"
When they came to their senses, they found that Agris, who was walking in the front, had completely disappeared.
Wei Huan guessed: "She may have already set foot on the future timeline and will be back soon."
Captain Liu said, "So, we are also in the future? Well, goodbye for now. See you later."
Wei Huan nodded: "Don't make things complicated, Captain Fang is waiting for us."
"good."
Sure enough, under the watchful eyes of Wei Huan and Jacques, Captain Liu and his four companions actually walked directly into the pile of rocks and disappeared without a trace.
Now, only Wei Huan, Jacques and five Osam tank captains are left here.
The expressions of two Osam captains seemed to light up again, but in the end, they were intimidated by Wei Huan's reputation and dared not move.
He just wanted to find out in a roundabout way whether Wei Huan had gained anything.
How could Wei Huan care about him?
Wei Huan simply asked Jacques: "You said you found some special traces. Is this the place?"
Jacques shook his head: "Not here, but nearby, let's go check it out."
"good."
They flew out of the passage, and the group of people at the door were still gathered. Liaf was rescued, and a druid turned into a treeman to heal him.
When they saw them come out, the group of people had unhappy expressions. They seemed to not understand why Wei Huan came back and walked with Osam and his group.
Everyone here knows that Wei Huan has given Osam a hard time in the past six months. Whether it is the 300 captives on Blue Star or the reputation Wei Huan built with blood on the Five-Star Island, they are all stepping on Osam to move up.
Theoretically, Osam and Wei Huan should have an irreconcilable blood feud.
It was okay when these gazes fell on Wei Huan, but when they fell on Jacques and others, it made them feel very uncomfortable.
Finally, the five Osam tank captains said with a stern face, "Let's go pick up Major-General Frankling. They should be back soon."
Wei Huan thought that when they went there, Captain Liu and his four companions would also come back with them, so there was no need to worry about Captain Fang, so he didn't say anything.
Jacques, however, said meaningfully, "This is a test of human solidarity."
The captain of Osam's face twitched secretly, but he finally gave in and nodded: "I know."
Now only Jacques and Wei Huan are left.
This was the first time the two of them were alone together during this assessment.
In fact, in his interactions with these strongest humans, Wei Huan and Jacques had many interactions and were particularly concerned about his movements.
Wei Huan said, "You showed up during the assessment this time. After you leave, Osham will definitely look for you. What are your plans?"
Jacques looked at Wei Huan: "What do you want to say?"
Wei Huan said, "I'm a level six car."
Jacques pursed his lips and fell silent.
Wei Huan didn't want to put pressure on Jacques, so he said, "Go ahead and do what you need to do. I'll stay in the Level 5 world for about three months, and then I should be going to the Level 6 world. You can come find me anytime before then."
Jacques breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you for the invitation. I do have something I must do. If there's room in your car after I'm done, I'll go with you to see the scenery of the Level Six World."
"good."
The topic stopped here.
There is no point in talking about things that are uncertain.
Just like Wei Huan said, he was willing to wait for Jacques for three months. This was a respect for the strong and the hero, but he would not wait forever. After all, he still had his own responsibilities.
Afterwards, the two chatted about their experience of the assessment, and before they finished, they came to the topic of the anomaly discovered by Jacques.
There is another crack here. The crack is so narrow that it is almost invisible from the outside, but it is completely fine if you crawl in.
Jacques used his eagle eyes to see footprints and traces of crawling here.
Jacques said, "This is it. Do you want to go in?"
Wei Huan nodded and said, of course he would go in.
This building just collapsed, so the footprints left here must be new. I wonder who it is that did not gather with the main force after the incident, but instead hid in a hole. It's very suspicious.
The "Facehugger Engineering Team" is back at work.
The black stone should have been very strong when it had the magic pattern, but now the magic pattern has been shattered, making it very easy to dig.
Soon the facehugger dug more than ten meters away, and the road ahead became clear.
Wei Huan and Jacques looked at the wide passage in front of them with serious expressions, and then they sped up and flew deeper.
It took half an hour to walk. There were some collapsed places in the middle, but they were easily dug open by the facehuggers.
I don’t know how deep I went, but suddenly Sister Crow’s “cackle” sound rang out above my head.
Wei Huan suddenly stopped the undead army.
Before Jacques could speak, Wei Huanxian raised his finger to signal him not to speak.
Then he said in a very low voice: "There is someone in front."
At the same time, Wei Huan's vision fell on the elite Demon Eye Lord, and flew forward a little bit, but stopped before it reached the location explored by the Ghost Crow.
The muscles and blood vessels behind the Elite Demon Eye Lord are like signal receivers, able to see and hear to a degree that human eyes and ears cannot receive.
And a sense of smell that is a hundred times sharper than that of a human nose.
Wei Huan smelled the scent of blood deep in the cave, which was warm and fresh.
Mixed with the thick and disgusting blood was a hoarse and rapid breathing sound, followed by a "cough cough cough" sound, as if blood was blocked in the throat, and a violent cough and groaning sounded at the same time.
Green flames flickered in Wei Huan's eyes.
He recognized that the moaning sound was made by a woman, and for some reason he thought immediately of Cynthia.
Honestly, this woman is a character, and if this were a chaotic doomsday test, someone like her would definitely be able to thrive.
Unfortunately, even though humans are constantly fighting among themselves, the top leaders have always insisted on focusing on fighting on large battlefields and on unity.
Wei Huan listened for a while. Apart from the increasingly slow breathing, there was no other movement. Out of curiosity, he wanted to move forward.
Suddenly, new footsteps were heard, followed by the dull thud of something heavy being kicked. Someone said, "Wait for death. Stop struggling. No one can save you. If you give me all the fruits, I can at least guarantee you a quick death."
The person who spoke was a man, and Wei Huan felt that his words sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard them before.
"Oh, cough, cough, cough!" The woman coughed heartbreakingly, but finally laughed and spoke fluently. "I'd rather die than give it to you, you devil! Your ugly face makes me want to vomit, and your filthy heart really matches!"
Wei Huan knew who this person was.
Denton.
The disabled and disfigured man did not die in the collapse, and seemed to know something.
"Damn it! Woman! Woman! Woman!" Denton seemed to be suddenly provoked, venting his anger madly amidst Cynthia's wails. As each muffled sound came out, it was accompanied by his gnashing curses, "You are all poisonous scorpions, you disgusting women, die! Die! Die!"
Cynthia must have been beaten too hard and finally stopped making any sound, but the sound of the beating continued and had become a pure venting of anger.
Wei Huan did not show up. He was not as powerful as the Holy Father. Besides, with such a strong smell of blood, it was estimated that Cynthia could not be saved.
Instead, he was a little curious about what Denton would do next.
So the Elite Demon Eye Lord, under his control, slowly moved towards the direction where the sound came from, but did not wait for Wei Huan to get close.
"Who!" Denton spoke with unusual alertness.
Wei Huan heard the sudden sound of running and no longer cared about hiding his tracks. He ordered the Lord of the Demon Eye to chase after him.
In front of the passage, Denton's body suddenly grew to two meters tall, his hands and feet condensed into a dark body, and bone spurs grew out of the joints of his bones. The hands and feet were like claws and looked extremely sharp.
He ran so fast that the Demon Eye Lord had to speed up to catch up with him, and at the same time he tentatively emitted a black beam of light.
"boom!"
The black beam hit Denton's back, and he staggered, but when he turned over, he seemed to be unharmed and ran even faster.
Wei Huan was surprised.
This was an attack from an elite-level Demon Eye Lord, and even though Denton was only at Sequence Four, he could easily withstand the damage.
After being eroded by dark energy, it indeed became very powerful.
The Lord of the Demon Eyes chased after him. The two of them were running at almost the same speed, so he could only shoot black beams from time to time to knock Denton down, so as to close the distance.
Wei Huan's real body chased after him without saying a word. When passing by a place, he saw Cynthia lying in a pool of blood. Without thinking too much, Wei Huan ordered the ground beast to hook her up, throw her on its back and take her away.
Jacques saw Cynthia and was surprised: "What's going on?"
Wei Huan explained it quickly in a few words.
Jacques's brows furrowed suddenly. "Is it really Denton? I've always felt that he wasn't right. Agris also warned us to be careful of people who sell their souls to the devil."
Wei Huan did not answer. His attention was still more on the front. Finally, once again, after Denton was knocked down, he was completely enraged by Wei Huan.
He turned his head suddenly, revealing his tattered and terrifying face that was more hideous than a demon, and gnashed his teeth: "Wei Huan! I will kill you!!"
The thick hatred is like a raging storm.
Immediately afterwards, Denton's body suddenly grew larger, from two meters to three meters, his muscles swelled and became strong, and he roared as he rushed towards the elite lord possessed by Wei Huan.
Wei Huan frowned, and soon he lost his sight.
I didn't expect that Denton's attack was so fierce. Although the Demon Eye Lord was just a long-range turret and had no melee defense, he was killed in Denton's hands in less than a minute.
"What's wrong?" Jacques noticed that the green flame in Wei Huan's eyes disappeared.
Wei Huan shook his head and said calmly: "Nothing."
Then, the portal behind Wei Huan opened, and the resurrected elite Demon Eye Lord flew out.
However, the flying speed of the Demon Eye Lord was not as fast as that of the Earth Beast. In the end, it could only stop beside Wei Huan, its big eyes rolling around, looking a little aggrieved.
This time, Jacques did not ask, but opened his golden eyes and saw Denton surrounded by ghost crows.
The ghost crow has made another contribution.
Although Ghost Crows have become increasingly useless in the current world, that is only because they are only at Sequence Four. Facing monsters and challengers from the Level Five world, it is of course difficult for them to be effective.
But isn’t that a coincidence?
Denton is only Sequence Four.
Under Wei Huan's command, the ghost crows continued to transform into black arrows and rushed towards Denton's brain.
Denton was able to resist some of the ghost crows' soul screams, but not much, and he stumbled all the way while holding his head.
At the same time, he was shouting in pain: "Wei Huan! Wei Huan! Wei Huan!"
One voice after another rang out in the empty passage, like a vicious curse.
As he continued to shout Wei Huan's name, black mist visibly emerged from his body, as if something was lurking behind him and was about to be torn apart.
Jacques's eagle eyes had no hearing and he didn't know what Denton called out. He just locked onto the target and counterattacked.
He held a sniper rifle that was about one and a half meters long in his hand.
The sniper rifle had a large caliber, almost like a small cannon barrel, but Jacques easily raised it in front of his eyes.
Then he took aim and pulled the trigger.
"Bang!"
The deafening sound echoed in the corridor. Jacques' shoulders shook slightly, easily relieving the recoil of the sniper rifle.
Immediately afterwards, the bullet, which was as long as an adult's palm, traveled through time and space and appeared ten meters away from Denton.
"call out!"
It hit him precisely between the eyebrows.
"ah!"
Denton was knocked backward and fell heavily to the ground.
Wei Huan couldn't break Denton's defense no matter how hard he tried with his elite Demon Eye Lord, and when he got up again this time, his face was covered in blood.
But he didn't die.
The powerful bullet only penetrated his skin and lodged in his forehead.
Jacques saw this, raised his eyebrows, and then pulled the trigger again.
This time Denton was prepared. The next second after the gunshot, he rolled over to avoid it, and a splash of blood burst out on his shoulder.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
The next few shots were dodged, leaving only a few superficial wounds on Denton's body.
But it doesn't matter that Jacques can't kill Denton.
Because of this delay, Wei Huan and his undead army finally arrived.
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