Chapter 371 Nightmare Mutant

Su Ming had already noticed the weirdness of the tenth floor.

No, it's not just Su Ming. Everyone who comes to the tenth floor, unless they are really heartless, will notice this strange sign.

Those group leaders and deputy group leaders seemed to have been in doubt for a long time. When they heard Xu Xiayan's words, they immediately started speaking.

"I've been wanting to ask this for a long time, why isn't there even a single phantom demon on the tenth floor?"

"Even though the demonic nature is so strong, I haven't encountered even one phantom demon. Isn't this too strange?"

"I thought that the Summer Smoke Chaser who arrived earlier had used some alchemical item to drive away the phantom demons and prevent them from approaching."

"Me too."

Everyone spoke up one after another, causing some noise.

"Isn't the current situation on the tenth floor deliberately arranged by you, 'Summer Chasing Smoke'?" Qiao Zhi couldn't help but question it out loud, saying, "If not, then what is going on?"

Everyone looked at Xu Xiayan.

Under the gaze of everyone, Xu Xiayan's expression became more serious and solemn than ever before.

Then, the leader of "Summer Chasing Smoke" spoke.

"It's not like there are no phantom demons on the tenth floor."

Xu Xiayan spoke in a heavy voice.

"However, there is only one Phantom Demon here. The other Phantom Demons dare not enter this floor, making this floor the exclusive territory of that Phantom Demon."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present held their breath.

"There is only one phantom demon?"

"The other phantom demons don't dare to approach?"

"Exclusive territory?"

Qiao Liang, Zhu Qian, Zhu Yun and others also had slightly changed expressions.

This short sentence reveals a lot of information.

"What kind of phantom demon can occupy a single floor in this Midnight Labyrinth as its territory, making so many phantom demons in the Midnight Labyrinth dare not approach it?"

Chi Qian's whisper clearly explained the reason why everyone's expression suddenly changed.

You should know that this polar night maze is a hidden wonderland and will never appear on the ground. As a result, there are not only many natural treasures that have never been ruined by humans, but also countless phantom demons fighting and developing here, strengthening themselves, growing as quickly as poisonous insects, and there are almost no external enemies.

This makes the phantoms that appear in the Midnight Labyrinth much stronger than the phantoms that appear in ordinary wonderlands.

For example, Su Ming and others encountered dangerous species on the fifth floor, and mutants of dangerous species on the sixth floor. The phantom demons that appeared on the seventh, eighth, and ninth floors were also of extremely high levels. The worst were lower-level phantom demons that were on the edge of evolution and mutants among lower-level phantom demons. Dangerous species among higher-level phantom demons also appeared many times, and even mutants of dangerous species appeared several times.

Su Ming even killed a dangerous species on the verge of evolution with his own hands for the colorful eye juice.

The same is true for the other teams. After entering the lower floors, they have repeatedly encountered strong enemies, especially dangerous mutants, which are equivalent to six-star professionals. Those B-level teams have to rely on human wave tactics to defeat them.

Even for A-level teams like "Jinlong Yuge" and "Iron Rose", if they didn't have the two six-star professionals Qiao Liang and Zhu Qian, it would be difficult to overthrow them if they encountered a being of that level.

As a result, someone now told them that there was an existence on the tenth floor that even the phantom demons of that level were wary of or even afraid of?

What level is that?

"Nightmare species?"

Zhu Yun spoke slowly, with a hint of solemnity and suspicion in her tone.

Almost everyone present had the same reaction.

After all, they could only think that the phantom demon who could make all the phantom demons, including dangerous mutants, dare not approach and who occupied the tenth floor, the deepest part of the Midnight Labyrinth, as its territory was a nightmare species.

Only the nightmare species can make the dangerous mutants submit, fear and terrify.

If the opponent is a leader among the nightmare species, similar to the poisonous insect queen in the poisonous insect cave, then he is equivalent to the lord of the entire midnight maze and a great existence comparable to the seven-star professionals.

Just as everyone was thinking this, Xu Xiayan revealed something extremely shocking.

"It is indeed a nightmare seed." Xu Xiayan said, "But, it is not an ordinary nightmare seed, but a mutant of the nightmare seed."

————"Nightmare mutant".

When these words came out of Xu Xiayan's mouth and spread throughout the tent, the whole place fell into dead silence.

After a while, there was a loud explosion.

"Nightmare mutant.!?"

“Are you kidding me!?”

Without exception, everyone stood up suddenly.

Including Qiao Liang.

Including Zhu Xi.

Including shallow pool.

Naturally, this also includes Su Ming.

"Nightmare mutant."

Su Ming couldn't help but stand up, his face full of surprise.

Not to mention Su Ming, even in the space behind Su Ming, a mist suddenly appeared, shook all over, and then disappeared again.

Unfortunately, no one present noticed this sign.

Their attention had already been completely drawn to this sudden and terrible news.

"Captain Xu!" Qiao Liang looked at Xu Xiayan with an extremely unpleasant expression, and said, "We have never heard of nightmare mutants here!"

This question almost represents the inner thoughts of everyone present.

"It's not that I won't tell you." Xu Xiayan said with a wry smile, "It's just that this is a serious matter involving an SS-level mission. I can't disclose it without your permission."

"It can't be disclosed casually." Qiao Zhi's expression was even uglier than Qiao Liang's, causing him to shout: "Who would dare to come here if they knew there were nightmare mutants here?"

That's how it is.

"Captain Xu." Zhu Yun also said in disbelief: "The purpose of your hiring us is to have us deal with nightmare mutants?"

"Impossible." Zhu Qian said bluntly without even thinking, "You'll die."

These two simple words sent a chill through the hearts of everyone present.

Yes, you will die.

There is no need to think about it too much. If we really encounter a nightmare mutant, everyone here will die.

Even though there are numerous six-star professionals, many senior professionals, and more than a dozen teams with at least B-level strength, they are still doomed to die if they face such an existence.

Even Su Ming didn't dare to say that he could deal with a nightmare mutant.

What kind of existence is that? A simple calculation will make it clear.

Take dangerous species as an example. The power of a dangerous species that has just successfully evolved into an advanced phantom demon is between four stars and five stars, stronger than four stars but weaker than five stars. Only the best among them can be comparable to five stars.

If it can devour and strengthen itself all the way to the level of evolution, then this dangerous species will be no less powerful than a top-level five-star professional.

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And if evolution occurs, even if it fails, this dangerous species that becomes a mutant will have power comparable to that of a six-star professional.

Then, if the evolution is successful and the dangerous species becomes a nightmare species, its power will be between six stars and seven stars, stronger than six stars and weaker than seven stars. And as mentioned in the above example, only the best among them can be comparable to seven stars.

In this case, if this nightmare species continues to devour and grow stronger, and reaches a level on the verge of evolution, it will be comparable to a seven-star peak-level existence.

In other words, among the phantom demons, the nightmare species that can reach the level of evolution is already invincible in the human world.

For human professionals whose highest level is only seven stars, the seven-star peak level is the ceiling of the ceiling, the apex of the apex, and there is no opponent at all in the common race.

But what is the concept of nightmare mutants? They are beings that have failed to evolve and have not reached the end of the horror species, but are still higher than nightmare species!

Such existence is also extremely rare in the Spirit Demon Prison. Even if there are only two or three of them, they will definitely not exceed ten fingers.

An existence of this level, placed in the Spirit Demon Prison, would be the number one thug beside the terrifying species who is the king of the Spirit Demon Prison, equivalent to the left and right arms of the "king".

Seven stars?

No! The mutants in the nightmare species are already individuals that are superior to the seven-star professionals!

In the recorded history of mankind, this kind of phantom demon has only appeared once, the same number of times as the legendary horror species! Now, Xu Xiayan is telling everyone that there is a mutant of the nightmare species here?

At this moment, everyone felt a chill down their spine, as if some terrifying existence was staring at them from behind, and waves of fear arose in their hearts.

Seeing this scene, Su Ming was sure that as long as Xu Xiayan asked everyone to go together to deal with the nightmare mutant, everyone present would leave on the spot and would never stay at this level.

Even if it was Su Ming, if he was really asked to deal with the nightmare mutants, he would also have to consider whether to run away with "Azure Mercury" along with him.

Just kidding, you can't do this even if you want to die.

That is an existence that is superior to the seven-star professionals, and is the second most powerful individual in the entire Spirit Demon Prison after the terrifying species.

If it was just an ordinary nightmare, Su Ming could still fight it with his dual-professional abilities.

Even if it was a leader among nightmare species like the Poison Insect Queen, who was comparable to a seven-star professional, with the help of the grown-up Hai'er, Su Ming would dare to give it a try. After all, it was not like he had never tried before.

But that is a mutant of the nightmare species, an existence that ordinary nightmare species cannot even approach.

With that kind of existence, let alone Su Ming and Hai'er joining forces, even if all the people present, all the professionals in the entire Midnight Maze, and even the S-level teams outside the Midnight Maze and the Tianfeng City Army were added, it was still an unknown whether they could rely on the human wave tactics to defeat this Boss.

Therefore, even Su Ming did not want to face such an existence.

At least, I definitely don’t want to at this stage.

Fortunately, when everyone present was about to back off, Xu Xiayan told everyone a good news.

"Everyone, don't be nervous." Xu Xiayan remained calm, as if she had anticipated everyone's reaction, and said, "The nightmare mutant was seriously injured. It probably has less than one-tenth of its strength left. It's not as scary as everyone thinks."

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other.

"Injured?"

Su Ming and others also looked confused.

Seeing this, Xu Xiayan revealed another secret.

"This nightmare mutant is actually a general under the command of the horror species that once appeared in the world. It invaded the world together with the king of the spirit demon prison in history."

The only nightmare mutant that appeared in human history actually happened at the same time as the only horror mutant that appeared.

According to records, that nightmare mutant emerged from the Chaos Demon Cave along with the King of the Terror Species, and was the most powerful force around that "King".

After that, the terrifying King of the Demonic Prison was completely sealed at the border of the continent by human heroes at great sacrifice. Only the nightmare mutant was still wreaking havoc on the earth. In the end, it was severely damaged by the few remaining seven-star professionals along with most of them, and then escaped.

"Historically, this nightmare mutant disappeared suddenly after escaping."

"But since then, Tianfeng City has been tracking its whereabouts, collecting its hair, blood, flesh residues, and information about its magic power and demonic nature. Over the years, they have been using all kinds of the latest alchemical devices and instruments to track and scan it, intending to find its existence."

"It was not until half a year ago that the signs of the Midnight Labyrinth were detected by the detection department of Tianfeng City. The detection personnel of Tianfeng City were surprised to find that some alchemical devices and instruments were actually responding to the demonic reactions and life reactions that appeared at the bottom of the Midnight Labyrinth."

"After comparing and checking the records, Tianfeng City finally confirmed that the nightmare mutant that humans had been searching for for many years was actually at the bottom of this Midnight Labyrinth."

Xu Xiayan explained solemnly.

"When the detection department discovered its existence, it also confirmed that this nightmare mutant was still in a state of severe injury. It seemed that it had not been able to recover from its injuries over the years."

This is normal.

Although phantom demons possess amazing regenerative abilities, if they are severely injured by extremely powerful spiritual magic or alchemical weapons, their regenerative abilities will be completely useless. It is normal for their injuries to not heal for countless years.

Just like Xiao Hai'er in the past, she was severely injured by the "evil" crow. If it weren't for Su Ming and Xu Qianqian's rescue, she would have died of exhaustion.

And the heavy damage that a nightmare mutant has to endure is countless times more difficult for it to recover from than the injury that Xiao Haier suffered back then. It may not be able to fully recover no matter how much blood it sucks.

"To be honest, the commission that Tianfeng City gave me this time, in addition to finding the golden dream demon thread, is to confirm the injury of the nightmare mutant."

Xu Xiayan said so.

"Once confirmed, Tianfeng City will most likely send out strong men to defeat this former scourge."

This is the entire content of Xu Xiayan’s SS-level mission.

(End of this chapter)