Chapter 257 Arriving at the Dark Beast Plane
Team Xue chose "yes".
As he made his choice, the only difference from what he had initially imagined was that they did not need to enter the teleportation array one by one, but everyone was teleported away at the same time.
The feeling of teleportation is very similar to entering the "Random Challenge". Both are done by leaving the chariot and teleporting with the physical body, so there will be a little dizziness.
However, the time it takes to enter the Dark Beast Plane is obviously longer than that of entering the random challenge, so this feeling of dizziness lasts for a very long time, so long that Wei Huan seemed to hear the sound of someone retching, and then all the rotation suddenly disappeared, and Wei Huan's feet stepped on the ground.
Wei Huan opened the portal immediately and looked around at the surrounding environment.
Unexpectedly, the world before my eyes was not dark.
The sky was a light emerald green, with floating clouds. The clouds looked golden, and the edges seemed to be drawn with a golden pen.
There are mountains and forests in front of him, which is very similar to the blue planet, except that the tree trunks are thick and tall, and the gaps between trees are extremely narrow. This reminds Wei Huan of the newcomer's first road challenge "Forest", which seems to be a similar environment.
Even the shapes of some trees are the same as here.
The thing he was most worried about did not happen. Wei Huan confirmed that he could clearly see the environment here, unlike in the previous life when humans smuggled through the cracks and could not see anything.
So I never thought that the Dark Beast Tribe's plane would be like this.
"Is this the Dark Beast Plane?" Mu Zhong said after apparently observing it for a while. "It's different from what I imagined. I thought it would be darker, more violent, and bloodier."
Wei Huan nodded, he thought so too.
Mu Zhong said again: "Everyone is here, what's next?"
"What does Ironheart say?"
"This is a free adventure, but Ironheart is trying to find a way to hack into this world's network. If he finds one, we'll know what to do next."
"Ignore the Dark Beast Tribe for now, and find someone to rescue them first."
"Yes, it's the highest priority."
As they said this, their expressions became serious.
In such a big world, it is too difficult to find the 272 missing people, and their way of entering will definitely not be recognized by the world consciousness. It must be the same as in the previous life, everyone in this world is like a blind person.
The danger will only double.
Mu Zhong was still waiting for the "Heart of Steel" to capture intelligence about this world. The others were ordered to stay where they were and wait for the next order. There was also a fortune teller in the team who tried to use his abilities to predict the direction they were going.
Unexpectedly, the first person to speak was Wei Huan.
"Mo Ji..." Wei Huan said this with an extremely surprised expression on his face.
Mu Zhong turned to look at him, "What happened to Mo Ji?"
"I feel that Mo Ji is in this world..." Wei Huan said as he tilted his head to sense.
"What? How could that be? You just recruited the undead." Mu Zhong looked at the undead who were still walking out of the portal.
Even the fastest-moving ghost crow had only just reached five kilometers.
For safety reasons, Wei Huan did not open the cordon at the beginning. He just arranged for the ghost crows to use their ability to travel through the void and roam within a five-kilometer range first. The actual defense area was only within three kilometers around him.
Maybe the Dark Beast Clan has already received the intelligence, or maybe not. In any case, they cannot alert the enemy. The Challenge World has specifically reminded them that this challenge is very difficult. They only have a plane with a hundred enemies and no tank support. They have to stay here for 24 days and have to search for and rescue people. It is best to keep them in the dark and the enemy in the light until they understand the situation.
Therefore, the undead were almost visible at a glance, and Mu Zhong could be 100% sure that Wei Huan had not summoned any of the Shuromas.
In the current environment, flying and ground-based creatures are the most useful. Creatures like Shuroma need vision but have no vision, and their combat effectiveness cannot keep up. In addition, walking is restricted in such a dense forest. Shuroma will only be a hindrance if he comes out, including to that lively little undead.
"Where is it?" Mu Zhong asked Wei Huan.
Wei Huan felt it, looked towards a direction in front of him on the left, and said, "It's a bit far, beyond my summoning range."
"This is so strange!" Mu Zhong couldn't help but say, "Is it really not in your tomb?"
"Confirmed, not here."
"Did you call it?"
"We're too far away to communicate, but we can sense its location. As long as we get close to it, we can summon it." After a pause, Wei Huan said, "I've always felt that Moji is special."
"But no matter how special it is, it is impossible for it to appear in the Dark Beast Plane. How did it get here?"
Wei Huan said, "I think it was when we were attacked that I arranged a large number of undead to protect Liu Chengzhi and Dou Lin. Perhaps it was the huge suction force that carried them along that also sucked Mo Ji away. The other undead returned to the tomb the moment they left the summoning range, except for Mo Ji."
Mu nodded. "Indeed, it has been acting very differently since the beginning. When I saw it recently, I even felt that it was a real Shuroma cub, not a resurrected undead. Its soul is active, and its flowing blood even brings it body temperature. Moreover, it is not completely under your control."
Wei Huan nodded and made a decision: "If Iron Heart doesn't have a better solution for the time being, we should go in the direction of Mo Ji. He should be with Dou Lin and Liu Chengzhi."
"Perhaps there's Captain Fang as well," Mu Zhong said with a wry smile. "That would be great, as we can rescue everyone who needs to be rescued. Humanity won the opening battle, but they haven't even heard of this victory yet. They're all heroes, and I hope they're all safe."
Now that the next plan has been determined, they must act as soon as possible, as so many people are waiting for them to be rescued.
Wei Huan summoned two-headed hidden demons and had a hundred warriors ride on them. He also had Dianma assign two ground beasts to each of them for protection.
Wei Huan continued to sit on Dian Ma's back. Dian Ma had shrunk to a size slightly larger than an ordinary ground beast, so two people could sit easily.
Then they floated down the mountainside like a group of flying dandelions.
After walking ten miles without incident, Wei Huan thought about it and expanded his undead alert line to 10 kilometers.
After walking another ten miles, there were still endless mountains. There were some special creatures in the dense forest. Their combat effectiveness was very low and they had no special abilities. I guess these were food for the dark beasts.
Wei Huan expanded the cordon to 20 kilometers.
At this time, the quacking sound of Sister Crow sounded in his ears, and Wei Huan hurriedly concentrated his attention and listened.
Finally, something is different.
"What happened?" Mu Zhong also heard Sister Ya's cry, but he couldn't understand it and could only look at Wei Huan.
Wei Huan said, "There are dark beasts, a group of ghost crows, nearly a thousand in number, that suddenly flew out of the forest and attacked our ghost crows."
"It seems this is indeed the Dark Beast Plane." Mu Zhong gave a rather irrelevant answer and breathed a sigh of relief. "The Dark Beast Tribe outnumbers our human race by more than ten times. We've only just encountered this low-level Dark Beast. It seems our current location is quite remote." He then asked eagerly, "How's the battle situation?"
"All wiped out." Sister Crow had finished her report, and Wei Huan understood all the ins and outs. "The Dark Beast Tribe also has star ratings. The lowest-level Ghost Crows are not intelligent enough to be considered beasts. Even if they are chosen as Dark Beast Lords, they cannot develop their territory, and naturally cannot improve their own strength. They are very easy to kill."
Mu Zhong said, "I've definitely never seen a ghost crow in the Challenge World."
"When you open a treasure chest on the primary challenge highway, you can get a ghost crow. You've never seen it anywhere else."
"However, the appearance of the Ghost Crow proves that we are indeed in the Dark Beast Plane. We must be cautious from now on. We must also be wary of these cunning Dark Beast Lords. They may escape or spread the news of our arrival."
"The reason why all the face huggers were summoned was to prevent this situation."
"You thought of it before me." Mu Zhong smiled and was about to say something else when he suddenly said, "Stop here."
Wei Huan didn't understand why, but he stopped marching immediately.
Mu Zhong jumped from a height of more than 30 meters in the air and landed on the treetop as lightly as if he had wings. He then turned back twice on the tree trunk and finally came to the ground.
When Wei Huan went down, Mu Zhong was picking up a large dark yellow stone from the ground. The stone looked like it had just been dug out of the ground, with half of it exposed above the ground and the other half buried in the soil, covered in dark mud. It was about the size of a basketball.
"What is this?" Wei Huan asked.
Mu Zhong said: "Materials, I am still the driver."
Wei Huan looked at the stone in Mu Zhong's hand again.
Mu Zhong smiled. "Making technological items is Iron Heart's forte. With it, I can even build a chariot. But time is limited now, so I'll prioritize making some surveillance equipment. You can't be the only one with vision, and we can't rely entirely on you. We have to do what we can."
Wei Huan thought that Mu Zhong's pilot would soon reach Sequence 4, and this kind of crafting would help him improve his proficiency, so he nodded and said, "Go ahead."
Mu Zhong: “…”
Mu Zhong did not waste much time. He only went down to the ground three times and brought back three kinds of minerals respectively. Then he let Wei Huan continue on his journey.
He sat cross-legged on Dian Ma's back, a red glow coming out of his hands holding the ore, and he began to refine it with full concentration.
The whole process lasted for a long time, which was related to the driver's sequence level. Mu Zhong was only sequence three, and it took him nearly half an hour to extract the pure essence from the largest stone.
As Wei Huan hurried on his way, he watched Mu Zhong rubbing the monitoring equipment with his hands.
Watching him refine the ore, and then use his fingers to pinch the ore into thin threads, thin slices, or delicate small pieces, occasionally talking to the Heart of Steel as if talking to himself, before he knew it, a monitor really appeared.
During this period, Wei Huan's undead army was frequently attacked by ghost crows.
These ghost crows were like wild beasts, lacking intelligence but possessing a strong sense of territory. Wei Huan had already established a 20-kilometer cordon, and whenever he ventured into the ghost crow's territory, he was constantly attacked.
Of course, the attacks of the ghost crows are nothing to be afraid of. Five or six level five undead ghost crows can easily wipe out an entire tribe. However, such frequent battles do give people a sense of urgency.
When another battle broke out, a flying camera smaller than a fist arrived at the battlefield. Under the gaze of its cold and mechanical "eyes", the images on the battlefield were transmitted back.
For a moment, everyone in the crew team who had intelligent data eyes saw a battle scene in front of them.
However, this is a good opportunity to understand the Dark Beast Plane, so naturally I have to study it carefully.
Wei Huan's data glasses also received images of the battlefield. They were not as useful as the Lord of the Magic Eyes, but they were sufficient as a means of observation.
Mu Zhong continued to rub the second camera and said, "Refining materials is a waste of time, but the rest is easy. The Dark Beast Tribe seems to have never been interested in high technology. These rich mineral deposits can be used to create many items that challenge the world. After the war is over, I estimate that this Dark Beast Plane will be our greatest trophy. When the resources here are mined, we can even build spaceships."
Wei Huan laughed in silence, but he liked this kind of imagination.
The two chatted like this for a while, and Sister Crow came back and quacked again. The two of them immediately shut up and looked over attentively.
Sister Crow is a heroic ghost crow. After advancing to level five, her IQ is already very high. After frequent training, her ability to judge the situation has reached the level of a "scout captain".
After Wei Huan confirmed that the threat posed by the ghost crows was very low, he told Sister Crow that unless there were special circumstances, she didn't need to come back to report if she encountered a ghost crow again.
Now that Sister Crow is back, either there is something wrong with those ghost crows, or something else has happened?
Mu Zhong also knew this order, so naturally, after discovering that Sister Ya had returned, he looked intently at Wei Huan, waiting for his translation.
After a few words of communication, Wei Huan said, "We found a small group of running wolves. I wanted to keep one or two to see what happened, but the ghost crow army killed them all."
"Did the Ghost Crows kill the Running Wolves?" Mu Zhong was surprised. The Ghost Crows were the weakest in Wei Huan's army, having been withdrawn from combat, only used for scouting and treasure chest opening. He hadn't expected them to even kill the Running Wolves. Thinking of the Dark Beasts' strength, which hadn't reached the level of a Lord, he laughed and said, "Your Ghost Crow army can sweep everything and become a God of War, right?"
"We're not weak to begin with." Wei Huan didn't underestimate himself, but said, "The Dark Beast Tribe outnumbers us humans ten to one, but the Dark Beast Lords that appear on the battlefield are barely comparable to our high-end fighters. They use low-level Dark Beast Lords as mobile power sources, eager to plunder at any time. That's why we only see the strongest of them. As for the real Dark Beasts, think about the people of Blue Star. If a Level 5 Lord Wolf entered Blue Star through a spatial rift, how much damage would it cause?"
"You're right." Mu nodded. "There's a huge difference between Lords and ordinary Dark Beasts, and ordinary Dark Beasts are the most numerous on their own planetary plane. Just like we try our best to gather the strong together, train and manage them, I believe the same is true for Dark Beasts."
"Moji's location is still far away. We need to move faster. The Challenge World only gives us 24 days."
"In such a vast and unknown world, we can't carry out an extermination strike against the Dark Beasts. If the Dark Beasts really want to hunt us, we have a lot of room to maneuver. This can only be regarded as an opportunity to gather intelligence on them. If we didn't need to rescue people, perhaps we could better understand the structure of the Dark Beast race."
"I'm very worried about Orange Juice and Dou Lin. I hope they're with Captain Fang."
As the two chatted, they never had the chance to see the natives of this world.
Ordinary dark beasts were too fragile, and in order to avoid any further complications, Wei Huan did not let the undead army hold back, so by the time they got the news, all the dark beasts were dead.
Before they knew it, half a day had passed. When everyone's stomachs were growling with hunger, they missed Liu Chengzhi even more.
In the end, it was Hammer Brother who roasted the wolf meat.
The meat of dark beasts themselves cannot be eaten. Their bodies are full of dark energy, which is like a poison to humans.
However, as everyone's strength increases, eating dark beast meat is no longer fatal. If it is properly prepared, it can even increase the challenger's energy and blood after consumption.
"Qi and blood" is a statistic that is not included in the Challenge World, but facts have proved that when the Qi and blood are sufficient, one will have more strength, greater endurance, higher agility, and be able to keep a clear mind.
In short, Qi and blood are like a "satiety level". Being well-fed will naturally perform better than being hungry.
Later, when Liu Chengzhi was born, he loved to study food, and his grandmother spent a lot of money to buy a cookbook produced by Challenge the World, which opened up a new world for Liu Chengzhi. Even the country was promoting the effects of diet therapy.
Brother Thor, who is usually low-key and taciturn, will go to the kitchen to help. It is not a big problem for him to take over the food for one hundred people at this moment. It’s just that the taste is a little worse and the added attributes are almost nothing.
"Well, the fat thief must live well." Xu Qingqiang said.
A criminal who can taste mustard-flavored tofu pudding even when eating the zombie bear's putrid fluid also misses Liu Chengzhi's cooking skills, which fully proves that delicious things are always delicious.
After having the meal, Mu Zhong also distributed the drinking water collected by the water collector.
In an environment where tanks cannot follow, the benefits of having a driver sequence are gradually emerging. Mu Zhong easily solved everyone's drinking water and dining problems, and also made some items that can be used for reconnaissance and combat.
Xiong Yi, Xu Qingqiang, Captain Xue, and Captain Wang Ming formed a decision-making group. The marching and logistics matters must be in place.
Mu Zhong was the only one making daily necessities, and there were a hundred people waiting for food, drink, and shelter. Even though he found it troublesome, he had to do it.
Only when you eat enough and get enough sleep can you have the strength to fight.
I don't know how much time passed, I just know that it got dark at some point.
It seems that this place is just like the Blue Planet, with day and night, as well as evening and morning. The green sky has darkened and looks a bit weird, and the golden clouds are vaguely burned red.
Mu Zhong looked at the completely different sky and said, "This is the devil's moment. This is the devil's moment."
"Night is coming."
"Yes, the Dark Beast is about to become active."
That's right, since arriving at the Dark Beast plane, they have actually been operating when the Dark Beasts were resting, so it feels so smooth.
Dark beasts are a species that hides during the day and comes out at night. In the darkness, they are more powerful and ferocious.
The nights here won't be easy.
Before it got completely dark, Mu Zhong threw out the small balls in his hands. Under the control of the Iron Heart, those balls flew to everyone, lighting up with a bright light, like a dream.
“Wow!”
A group of people exclaimed in amazement. It was really rare to see such a romantic scene on such a tense battlefield.
Mu Zhong said, "In the darkness, we will lose our vision, but it will also attract the attention of the Dark Beasts even more. I think the darkness is more annoying than fighting, so everyone should prepare their battle gear. Don't be afraid. Even if the Dark Beast King comes, they are just here to add to the meal!"
"Hohoho! I love extra food!!"
"Hahaha, let's make the lights brighter. It would be best if we don't attract those damn dark beasts."
"Hey, you mean, we can group brush again?"
"Hurry, hurry, put it higher, higher, let them come by themselves, so we don't have to look for them one by one."
The arrogant attitude and words of the crew attracted the attention of Xiong Yi and Wu Ning, but when they thought that this was Wei Huan and his crew, they didn't seem so arrogant.
The strongest of our human race should be so fearless and brave, and should be able to reduce the enemy's masts and sails to ashes while talking and laughing.
Mu Zhong's purpose in creating the lights was, of course, to achieve the "group brushing" achievement again. Preventing everyone from losing their vision in the dark was just a statement, and the actual core was very bloody.
So the lights are very bright and can be seen from a distance like a spotlight. There are also a large number of flying lights. After being scattered, they either fly in the air or fall on the bodies of the undead, illuminating the area within a mile around them.
Some lights flew to the farthest point and landed on the dark beast at the edge, which was equivalent to further expanding the "monster-luring" range of Wei Huan's undead.
After completing all this, Mu Zhong poured himself a glass of water and drank it slowly, and only then did he feel relieved from the inexplicable sense of urgency.
He said: "Okay, we have prepared everything we need to prepare, the rest depends on our luck."
This luck, of course, does not refer to the worry about being besieged by dark beasts, but the hope of being able to kill a few more dark beast kings on the way forward. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
As for being besieged by the Dark Beast King, I'm sorry, after Wei Huan's ability is further improved, even if it is a hunt of the same scale as before, even without the "tank group brushing" technique, it will not be so easy to catch them.
So what everyone needs to think about is that since it's a rare opportunity to come here, of course we have to kill as many as we can.
Mu Zhong thought ahead anyway, using the lights at night to attract the dark beasts.
Wei Huanze had known about this plan for a long time. After Mu Dian turned on the light, he ordered the two-headed hidden demon and the Demon Eye Lord that were resting on the face hugger to fly again and prepare for battle.
In less than three minutes, a group of violent bears, as if they had just woken up and crawled out of their dens, rushed out from the depths of the forest and attacked Wei Huan's soul.
Wei Huan had already noticed something unusual before Sister Ya came back to report the situation.
He stood up and looked in one direction, saying, "Some undead souls have been killed and taken back to the great tomb."
Mu Zhong was very excited: "Did you meet the Dark Beast Lord?"
"I'm afraid so." Wei Huan replied with a smile. Finally, he had some valuable prey.
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