Chapter 268 Four Secrets of the Dark Beast World
Soon, the brave team set off again. This time they traveled light and at a much faster speed. With the energy detector made by Mu Zhong, they aimed directly at the next territory of the Dark Beast King and advanced at full speed.
Half a day later, they returned to the mountains again, and this mountain was much taller and taller than the one they encountered when they first came in.
If the mountain that Wei Huan first encountered and destroyed with a bomb was as continuous and majestic as the Himalayas, then this mountain is a hundred times larger than the Himalayas.
At their high speed of one thousand kilometers per hour, they had been in the mountains for half a day and had not yet reached the territory of the Dark Beast Lord.
"Almost there." Mu Zhong looked at the energy detector in his hand, then looked at the mountain in front of him that rose from the ground like a pillar supporting the sky, and confirmed again, "It should be there."
Wei Huan also saw the mountain.
In fact, he had already seen it half an hour ago. At that time, the mountain was as thin as a hair. From a distance, it looked like a black iron rod inserted from the sky to the ground, half of it outside the sky, half deep in the earth, with only the tiny part in the middle exposed between heaven and earth.
Now, ten minutes later, the mountain in front of him has become as thick as a bucket, but its length has increased by who knows how many times. One needs to look up very high to see from the part of the mountain hidden in the clouds that the sky of the Dark Beast Plane is also extremely high.
For a place like this, let alone an energy detector, you can tell its extraordinaryness just by looking at it. You have to take a look at it if you pass by.
"Wei Huan, look down there," Mu Zhong suddenly said, pointing downwards. "The rocks down there are strange shapes, and there are fewer and fewer plants."
Wei Huan looked down and naturally noticed something unusual.
The mountains beneath your feet are quite high, and any one of them is as tall as Mount Everest. However, unlike Mount Everest which stands straight up into the sky, the peaks of these mountains seem to have been blown crooked by the wind, and all bend down in the opposite direction of the pillar of heaven.
If there are strong winds blowing all year round, making the mountains flat on one side and steep on the other, it is not uncommon on Blue Planet, or most mountains are like this.
The reason why it feels unusual is that the mountain bends down, making people think that the mountain is soft. Not only is it tilted, but the top of the mountain also bends inward to form a circle.
What kind of environment can create such a mountain shape?
Also, the rocks in this dark beast plane are obviously different from those on the Blue Star, which is why they are so soft and tough.
Wei Huan could completely accept the abnormality here. After all, this was a completely unfamiliar plane. However, the abnormality here aroused his vigilance, causing him to look at the pillar again.
After thinking about it, Wei Huan asked Dian Ma to release the "great-grandchildren".
Dian Ma is the queen, Gou Zi is the queen's successor, or princess, and her grandchildren evolved into the elite geobeasts. Wei Huan called the newly emerged elite facehuggers "grandchildren."
The pink grandchildren didn't look cute at all. The ferocious facehugger form made it crawl out of Dianma's abdomen and come to Wei Huan's feet, giving people a sense of danger.
Of course, it is absolutely loyal to Wei Huan. As an elite, it has a little intelligence and understands that Wei Huan is its "creator". It respects and worships him.
It came to Wei Huan's feet and crawled down motionlessly. Wei Huan's action attracted the attention of others. Everyone also paid attention to the situation here and looked over.
"Wei Huan?" Mu Zhong asked in confusion.
Wei Huan didn't say anything, but gave an order in his mind. The pink facehugger's legs retracted and opened, and it suddenly shot up.
It looked only half a meter in size, but its jumping ability was very fierce. It suddenly jumped more than ten meters high and jumped out of the air bubble that Dian Ma had wrapped around its body.
But it's different as soon as the bubbles come out.
Everyone saw this little pink thing, like a petal blown by a strong wind, suddenly flew backwards and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Everyone turned their heads back and looked in surprise at the direction where the pink facehugger disappeared. Only then did they realize what a harsh environment they were in.
During the past few days of traveling, Wei Huan consumed his spiritual energy to make Dianma a little bigger, and was able to fit everyone on the back shell at once.
Dian Ma's forward speed was maintained at around 1200 km/h, which was no longer a wind level that the wind shield made by Mu Zhong could withstand, so he had to spend more spiritual power to make Dian Ma open its air bubble at all times.
The legendary heroes' air bubbles isolated the wind and waves from the outside world, allowing them to move quickly and steadily. They never thought that the wind force outside had exceeded the limit that ordinary humans could withstand.
The grandson is also a level 5 facehugger, and an elite among facehuggers. Its individual combat power can almost deal with a sequence 4 challenger.
Besides, the facehugger has evolved the ability to fly and is fully capable of fighting against ordinary strong winds.
But in Wei Huan's perception, his grandchildren had no ability to resist and were blown away. In just over 10 seconds, they exceeded the summoning distance and returned to the tomb.
In other words, the wind speed exceeded 7,000 kilometers per hour, more than twice the speed of the dismounted chariot.
It's no wonder that even a level five elite facehugger couldn't withstand it. Although it wasn't fatal, it couldn't control itself and flew hundreds of miles away in a few breaths.
"Such a strong wind?" Mu Zhong was surprised. "I thought the wind would be strong in this kind of terrain, but I didn't expect it to be this strong."
Then he looked at the air shield above his head and exclaimed, "Luckily, my mother is here, otherwise it would have taken a lot of effort for us to get here."
Wei Huan seemed to be lost in thought: "No wonder this journey took so long. It must be because Dian Ma was fighting against the wind and waves, and her speed had slowed down unconsciously."
"You mean, it might be difficult for us to get close?"
"I don't know, let's try."
"As expected, we can't underestimate this world. After all, they are a race chosen to fight against humans. They should have their own potential."
"The potential is unclear, but this place is very special." Wei Huan said this, his eyes narrowed slightly as he looked ahead. Then he turned his head and said, "Captain Fang, I'm going to trouble you next."
Captain Fang naturally saw the environment here and what had just happened with the help of his data glasses.
Hearing this, he nodded: "Leave it to me."
Mu Zhong turned his head back and smiled, "Luckily, we have Captain Fang, otherwise this trip might not have been possible."
“I don’t know if I can handle it yet.”
"But if you can't bear it, it means this place is not a place we can get close to right now, and then we can give up completely."
"Try it first."
"Um."
Dian Ma walked forward for another half an hour, and her speed was getting slower and slower. With the naked eye, one could see that the air bubbles on the surface of her body were deformed by the strong wind and could burst at any time.
"Hey~~!!" Dianma reminded.
Wei Huan made a prompt decision and asked Captain Fang to activate the protective shield.
A golden translucent round cover instantly appeared outside the air cover, blocking the strong wind.
The pressure on Dianma suddenly eased, and the force of the strong wind sent it a long way forward. Everyone looked at the scenery flowing quickly backwards and realized how slowly they had been driving.
But before they could be happy, they discovered cracks on Captain Fang's protective shield.
Captain Fang sat cross-legged on the ground like a Buddha, his face solemn and his brows slightly furrowed. The cracks in the protective shield flashed with light and quickly healed.
“Crack!”
“Crack!”
But the sound of shattering continued, and Captain Fang's expression gradually became a little exhausted, as the strong wind outside was too powerful.
Wei Huan remembered and hurriedly ordered Dian Ma to slow down the speed until it reached 500 km/h. The cracks in the protective shield completely disappeared, and Captain Fang's face looked much better.
But this situation did not last long, because not long after moving forward, cracks began to appear in the protective shield again.
Wei Huan did not move because the speed could not be reduced any further. Lowering the speed would mean that they would need to hold on longer in this strong wind, which would also be another kind of exhaustion and test for Captain Fang.
The people brought by Captain Fang also sat behind Captain Fang without saying a word. The energies of a total of 163 people gradually connected together, like streams flowing into rivers, and finally all these energies entered Captain Fang's body.
The newly formed cracks flickered a few times and then disappeared, leaving the protective shield as smooth as an egg.
But everyone knew that it was not time to breathe a sigh of relief, because they seemed to be still some distance away from the mountain. By the time they got here, they had almost used up all their cards.
It was hard to be happy in such a situation. Obviously, it would be difficult for them to really get close to the mountain.
After a long silence, Wei Huan suddenly asked Mu Zhong, "Is that the complete encyclopedia?"
"What?"
"Dark Beast Encyclopedia, the reward for the Dark Beast Buster title."
Mu Zhong thought for a moment and said, "I'm sure that's all there is to it. I've read it from beginning to end. The book only introduces the Dark Beast Clan. Now that you've reminded me of this, I'm wondering why there's no introduction to the Dark Beast Royal Clan or the Dark Beast King? And there's no information about this plane, or any of these strange geographical phenomena. Perhaps what we've got is only a portion. It's just the Dark Beast Encyclopedia, not the Dark Beast World Encyclopedia."
After saying this, Mu Zhong suddenly tilted his head to look at the cube on his shoulder and said, "You have it, right? You must have this information, otherwise you wouldn't tell me which direction to find the sea. Do I have to ask before I can tell you?"
Wei Huan also looked over expectantly.
But after a few seconds, Wei Huan did not wait for Mu Zhong's translation. Instead, a new task appeared flashing on his virtual projection screen.
[Main Mission: Rescue 0/272 companions (Mission Failed)]
[Side Quest 1: Kill the Dark Beast King 0/1 (Unfinished)]
[Side Quest 2: Kill the Dark Beast King 12/293 (Unfinished)]
[Side Quest 3: Kill the Dark Beast Lord 20098/1000000 (Unfinished)]
[Side Quest 4: Kill Dark Beast 1221000/100000000 (Unfinished)]
[Side Mission 5: Intelligence from the East 0/1 (Complete)]
The failed main quest was folded, so Wei Huan could only see the side quests.
There is now an extra "six" in the side quest.
[Side Quest 6: The Secret of the Dark Beast Plane (Unfinished)]
[Exploring the "Tianzhu Twin Mountains" (unfinished)]
[Exploring the "Abyss" (Unfinished)]
【Exploring the "Shadow of the World" (Unfinished)】
【Exploring "The Bright Star" (Unfinished)】
Looking at the newly emerged tasks, everyone with a portable system was surprised.
Then, discussions began to spread everywhere.
"The Dark Beast Plane still has secrets? What secrets are there? I thought I won by killing the Dark Beast King."
"Of course, we'll win if we kill the Dark Beast King, but it seems this world isn't as simple as we thought. If we want to achieve an SSS-level clearance, we must dig deeper and find the truth."
“Without a heart of steel, who would have thought these things existed?”
"They say they're being suppressed by the world consciousness and can't reveal the secret directly. Doesn't that mean they've already pointed it out to us? Every policy has its own countermeasures."
"Shh, you're so ungrateful, shut up."
Wei Huan also took a deep look at the small black cube, and became more and more interested in this advanced intelligence.
Maybe this thing knows everything, including the reason why the human race was selected to participate in the world challenge, but because it is managed by a higher-level intelligence, it says nothing.
As for why we can now give such a task which is not an answer but is almost the same?
I think it's because they're already here, and the more they explore, the more "Heart of Steel" will reveal.
The mountain in front of them should be the "Tianzhu Twin Mountains" that they need to explore in the mission. After all, the direction of this description is very clear.
However, this "double mountain" also gave a new clue, indicating that there should be two identical mountains here, but Wei Huan looked around and saw nothing.
There were also discussions behind me.
"Where's the other mountain? Aren't they one above ground and one underground? Or is it that there's a fork somewhere you can't see above the clouds, and that's why it's called Twin Mountains?"
"Twin Pillars of Heaven, Trench of the Earth, Shadow of the World, Brilliant Stars—they're so random and have no direction, and the names are vague. How can I find them?"
"Anomalies, huge anomalies. The Twin Pillars of Heaven should be the mountain in front of us, and there may be another one somewhere else. The Abyss of the Earth is also easy to understand, it is deep underground. It's just that the directions of the last two are too vague."
"Yes, the shadow of the world and the brilliance of the stars, do they refer to day and night?"
"A shadow, a star, it must be night."
"Dark Beast Plane, Dark Beast Plane. You can see that there is also a distinction between day and night here, so shadow must refer to daytime, and star represents nighttime."
"There are no stars at night. How can you be sure that this 'star' refers to the night sky?"
Next, everyone started to associate and guess based on these names.
Although the name is ambiguous and controversial, one thing everyone knows is that without the reminder of "Heart of Steel", they would not even know the existence of these things.
The "Heart of Iron", which was already highly regarded, was further elevated in the eyes of the public. Everyone knew that it held core secrets about humanity and was revealing this information to humanity through various means.
A pro-human "core system" is a great thing for human development.
Wei Huan also wanted to talk to Mu Zhong about the direction of these four tasks, but before he could say more, the "click" sound was heard above his head again.
Cracks appeared on the protective shield again. Even though it was repaired by Captain Fang in the next second, it still meant that they had reached the critical point.
Wei Huan fell silent as he looked at the towering mountain in front of him.
"Heart of Steel" had actually told them that there were secrets hidden in the mountains, but they were not strong enough and there was nothing they could do if they couldn't get through.
Even after playing all the cards, we have only gotten this far, but the real mountains are probably still more than a thousand kilometers away.
This violent gale was like a natural barrier, preventing anyone from entering.
Wei Huan knew that Captain Fang could still hold on and move forward a little, but...
“Stop.”
Wei Huan decided to stop here.
The gains this time were enough, there was no need to take risks. If he knew that he would not be able to get through but still tried to force his way through, he would end up with nothing and nothing would happen. Only then would he truly regret it.
In such an environment, once Captain Fang can no longer hold on and the protective shield breaks, they will be immediately exposed to the wind. With a strength like Liu Chengzhi, they may be torn to pieces on the spot.
When Wei Huan's voice rang out, everyone who was still guessing about the mission shut up and looked over.
Everyone looked at Wei Huan, then stood up and waited for his next order.
Wei Huan said, "That's all for this time. Everyone, take a good rest for the next two days. There will be no more missions. When we return, we will go directly back to the Level 6 world, where there are still a lot of ruins waiting for us to explore."
Afterwards, Wei Huan ordered Dian Ma to go back.
When leaving, it was blown by the wind and flew faster. Soon it flew to the place where Captain Fang had put up the protective shield.
Here, Wei Huan stopped again and said to Mu Zhong, "I want to see the mountains below."
Mu nodded. "We have the same idea. There won't be many mountains like this as we go further. Also, there seem to be some plants on these mountains. Iron Heart can identify what can be used. We can take some back in the final stage."
"good."
With wind speeds of this magnitude, Captain Fang alone can hold up the protective shield and easily protect everyone.
The title of humanity's first knight is no joke.
Under the protection of Captain Fang's shield, they can even get off the back shell of the underground beast.
Then, the rocks and plants that were originally not accepted and belonged to the dark beast plane material were integrated into the protective shield with Captain Fang's "permission".
In this way, Wei Huan and his team can study this strange-shaped mountain without leaving the protective shield.
The mountain was blown down by the strong wind and bent backward into an arc that was almost a circle.
The leeward side is rocky, and the layers look somewhat neat. Some small plants grow on the rocks. In such an environment, plants that are too tall are doomed to not survive.
As for living creatures, they are definitely gone.
Mu Zhong jumped down first, and the "Heart of Steel" on his shoulder flew down and swept over these materials.
Mu Zhong also said, "In such a harsh environment, any plant that can survive is not an ordinary thing. Although the Iron Heart didn't say what it is, it still recommends that we take it back for research."
After saying this, Mu Zhong winked at Wei Huan.
The Heart of Steel is subject to too many constraints, but what it says, such as "you can take a look", "try it", and "research" should be taken seriously, and it will never do anything without a purpose.
There are so many treasures in this guy's database. Mu Zhong fights wits and courage with it every day, but unknowingly, his stance gradually shifts towards humans.
Mu Zhong took out the space box made of the perfect-grade Hun Tian Chi Yang and collected the two crooked trees and some stone chips and minerals in the nearby area.
This perfect-grade space box is not big, but Mu Zhong squeezed out space to fit these things whose use is unknown, which made Wei Huan curious.
He looked around and finally found another crooked tree within Captain Fang's protective shield.
The tree was only half a meter tall, with only six leaves and two branches, and looked extremely malnourished.
When Wei Huan raised his hand to touch it, he was stunned for a moment.
This was definitely not the feel of plants. The hard and cold leaves were more like jade. The same was true when touching the tree trunk. He tried pinching it, but with his strength reaching 600 points, he couldn't destroy it at all.
As expected, everything around the vision is extraordinary.
Mu Zhong also came over at this time, and with him came Liu Chengzhi, Xiong Yi, Captain Xue and others.
Each of them pinched the sapling, then marveled at it, and finally even Hammer Brother came over and offered his hand.
"It's really hard."
"What is this? Is there anything I can't crush?"
"Tsk tsk tsk, there are so many wonders in this world."
"This thing must be very special. Bring some back."
"By the way, if anyone has high strength, come over and try to see the extent of its defense."
"Come on, don't destroy it. We need to take it back and study it slowly."
"If we can't destroy it, what other machine on Blue Planet can destroy it?"
"There's always a way."
In the end, except for Xu Qingqiang who felt "life was hopeless", almost everyone came over to touch the sapling and chatted lively for a while. Seeing that everyone's interest had waned, Mu Chong took the sapling away.
Wei Huan asked, "Do you need more?"
Mu Zhong shook his head: "We don't know what it is yet, nor do we know if it's good or bad. We can't bring this thing back to Blue Star. Let's study it in the Challenge World first."
"Okay, put it on the tank. We have many experts on the tank."
"This shows that you have foresight. At first, I didn't understand why you had to bring so many experts to Challenge World. Now I understand that many things we don't understand really require professionals."
"Ironheart must know, but it won't say it."
"Yes, it probably knows and is playing dead now. I think once we've studied it to a certain extent, it should be able to remove the restrictions. Then we'll have a direction, and maybe even get the answer directly."
"Okay, you're more familiar with it than I am."
"Why are you still jealous?"
“…”
As soon as these words were spoken, several people passing by immediately quieted down, even stopped breathing, and treated themselves as furniture, only listening with their ears perked up, wanting to hear what was going on.
Then Wei Huan said with a half-smile, "It's better if it's just an intelligent AI."
I didn't say much, but the meaning was obvious.
Everyone felt satisfied as if they had taken a bite of candy.
The bosses’ stable relationships are a blessing for their chariots.
Mu Zhong tilted his slightly hot ears and said, "The wind here doesn't seem to be very strong. The mountains block the wind. Do you think we should camp here and rest, or leave?"
Wei Huan said, "Let's leave."
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