Chapter 78 Entering Ancheng for the first time
This time the system has prompted that the ultimate mission needs to be completed before going to Ancheng, so Gu Nian certainly does not dare to take it lightly.
When she sent an email to Tan Cang, she also sent an email to Chi Qin, asking Chi Qin to take the rest of the Aurora team to Ancheng to meet up.
When Gu Nian was still in Haicheng, Tian Mingyue had already searched Tian Jiaoyang's house carefully, and found a lot of information about the Besilida sect, including news about Ancheng.
About a year ago, Tian Jiaoyang was successfully possessed by the gods and his body was taken over by Yuer. He then sent evolvers to Ancheng to take root there and preach.
Now Tian Jiaoyang, or Yuer, is fleeing in a hurry. He has few subordinates and no resources. He is likely to flee to Ancheng and use Ancheng's power to continue his development.
Therefore, Tian Mingyue told Gu Nian that after the reconstruction of Haicheng was arranged, she would lead a team of evolver masters to Ancheng to track down Tian Jiaoyang.
Yu Ziqiu also made the same promise to Gu Nian. She was organizing the Noah Action Team in Jiangcheng and would set off for Ancheng in a few days.
Yue Jian is Gu Nian's partner in the mission of saving the world. Gu Nian also told him that Ancheng might be the place where everything ends. Therefore, Yue Jian attaches great importance to this trip to Ancheng and personally orders to transfer the masters of the Jing family to Ancheng to join them.
Gu Nian suddenly realized that she had gathered so much strength without realizing it. It must be said that this greatly increased her confidence.
Even though the trip to Ancheng is destined not to be easy, with so many friends and companions helping us, there is always hope of winning.
The cities of Ancheng and Haicheng are located in the south and north respectively. Even at the speed of the Golden Winged Falcon, it still took Gu Nian and his party ten days to reach Ancheng.
Gu Nian discovered along the way that the natural disasters encountered by many city bases had become smaller, and the earth had begun to slowly recover. Gu Nian knew that this was all due to the light tree transformed from the lotus.
Now, Guangshu can only hold on for twenty days. Within twenty days, she must complete the ultimate mission.
Ancheng finally appeared in their sight.
The Golden Falcon landed on a hillside, and Gu Nian and others planned to walk into Ancheng.
Walking down the hillside, Gu Nian saw a forest in front of him, with towering trees and shadows blocking out the sun. This was a mutant forest.
At the edge of the forest, there stood a woman in the distance. She was wearing combat uniform and had two daggers on her thighs. She was petite, but she spoke and acted with dignity.
The woman asked, "Is this the Aurora Squad? I'm Xu Can."
Gu Nian walked over: "Yes. Hello, I'm Gu Nian."
"I've heard a lot about you." Xu Can politely extended his hand to Gu Nian: "I'm the person in charge of Noah Research Institute here, and also your contact person in Ancheng."
When in Haicheng, the authorities contacted Ancheng for Gu Nian to facilitate Gu Nian's investigation after arriving in Ancheng, and Xu Can was Gu Nian's contact person in Ancheng.
Xu Can led Gu Nian and his group into the mutant forest.
Before entering, she said solemnly: "This mutant forest is on the only way to Ancheng, and there is no way around it. Everyone must be careful of the danger."
Gu Nian was puzzled when she heard this. She had seen this mutant forest when she was riding on the Golden Falcon. The area was not very large. Logically, this mutant forest on the outskirts of the city would only produce some small mutant beasts, which would at most cause some trouble to the evolvers.
But why did Xu Can remind everyone to be careful so seriously?
Although puzzled, Gu Nian still agreed.
The group entered the mutated forest.
Just after walking about a hundred meters, I heard panicked cries for help. "...There's a monster! Help!"
Several screams were heard, mixed with the roars of mutant beasts.
Something is happening!
Judging from the sound, several people were clearly surrounded by mutant beasts.
Xu Can frowned, seeming to want to say something but stopped himself.
But it was too late to change the route anyway, so Gu Nian said, "Let's go and take a look."
The Aurora team quickened their pace and headed towards the source of the cry for help.
The scene that appeared before everyone shocked everyone.
In the center of the forest, there were several strange mutant beasts that were two or three meters tall! These mutant beasts had dark blue skin, drool dripping from their mouths, strange limbs, and disgusting tumors on their heads. Rather than being mutant beasts, they were more like monsters!
These monsters are devouring and biting several evolvers, and the most terrifying thing is that these evolvers have no breath left and have become food for the monsters, and the cries for help are coming from the mouths of these monsters.
They are actually imitating human cries for help to trap humans!
Hearing someone coming, the monsters put down their food and rushed over.
Gu Nian was horrified, but his men did not slow down at all. They stretched out their hands, drew their arrows, and shot straight into the monster's eyes!
Yue Jian, Tu Jing, and other members of the Aurora team also joined the battle.
Those horrifying monsters were like ordinary mutant beasts in their hands and were killed in just a few dozen minutes.
Xu Can now saw the fighting power of Gu Nian and his group. If at the beginning, she only heard from Haicheng that Gu Nian and his group were highly skilled, now she saw it with her own eyes. She immediately made a judgment that Gu Nian and his group's fighting power could also be ranked among the top in Ancheng!
Xu Can finally explained to everyone: "During this period, many monsters that use cries for help to trap humans have appeared outside Ancheng, and many evolvers have died. That's why I reminded you to be careful before entering the forest. I just heard the cry for help, and I'm not sure whether it was a monster imitating the sound of a human cry for help, or if someone was really in danger."
So that's what it is. Gu Nian suddenly realized and understood Xu Can's strange behavior.
Members of the Aurora team dragged the monster's body over and were checking to see if there were any usable materials.
Gu Nian watched their movements, but suddenly realized something was wrong, so he stepped forward and turned over the body of one of the monsters.
No matter how Gu Nian looked at this monster, he felt it looked familiar.
Yuejian saw her frowning and came over to ask, "What's wrong?"
Gu Nian said: "Do you think this monster looks like a flaming bull?"
The Fiery Bull is a common mutant beast. It is actually a domestic cow that evolved in a natural disaster and has fire powers. Therefore, it is extremely common. It has a gentle temperament and low combat power. The appearance of the Fiery Bull is not much different from that of an ordinary cow, except that it has a flaming horn growing on its forehead.
Yue Jian followed Gu Nian's words and looked over carefully. If the monster's body was reduced in size, and the dark blue skin covered with disgusting mucus was removed, and the tumor on the head and the strange limbs were removed, this monster would really look exactly like a flaming bull.
Yuejian suddenly understood what Gu Nian meant.
The two of them quickly checked the corpses of other monsters.
The same situation.
The other monsters, if you remove those weird parts, look exactly like several common mutant beasts!
Perhaps, they were originally ordinary mutant beasts, but were artificially induced to become monsters!
Gu Nian had seen with her own eyes that the evolvers around Tian Jiaoyang had transformed into monsters after drinking a bottle of black liquid. Is it possible that if the bottle of black liquid was given to ordinary mutant beasts, they would turn into the monsters in front of them!
Gu Nian explained her guess to Xu Can.
Xu Can also heard from Haicheng that the Beshida sect has the technology to transform those evolvers into monsters. It must be said that Gu Nian's guess makes sense.
But how to verify it? Xu Can thought about it.
Gu Nian said, "This time when we came to Ancheng, we also brought samples of the limbs of the monsters that were mutated from humans in Haicheng. Can we compare them with these monsters that may be mutated from evolved beasts to see if we can find anything?"
At that time, several of Tian Jiaoyang's confidants died after they were transformed into monsters. Tian Mingyue and his researchers recovered all the monster fragments they could find at the scene for research. Before leaving, Gu Nian also took a sample with him.
I didn't expect Gu Nian to be so well prepared! Xu Can was delighted: "That's great. Let's take the bodies of these monsters back to the city and give them to the researchers along with the samples to see if we can find some clues."
The sudden appearance of the monsters caused a lot of headaches for the Ancheng officials. If they could really find clues to the solution, that would be a great thing!
Dragging the corpses of these monsters, Gu Nian finally arrived at Ancheng.
Ancheng is known as the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. There are ancient city walls and many ancient monuments in the city. Before the natural disaster, whenever Ancheng opened a subway, ancient tombs would be dug up, which shows how many ancient monuments there were. However, such a city with a profound heritage is now left with only broken walls and ruins.
Xu Can told Gu Nian: "Ancheng doesn't produce food locally, so we used to rely on food imports. Half of the people died during the natural disaster, and half of the survivors starved to death."
From these few short sentences, Gu Nian could get a glimpse of the tragic situation in Ancheng that day.
If Haicheng could find some food by the sea during the natural disaster, then Ancheng was completely destroyed.
Ancheng had a population of 10 million before the natural disaster. Now, after absorbing refugees from nearby areas, the entire city has less than 100,000 people.
Before the natural disaster, this was just the level of a town.
But this is the current situation in Ancheng.
The passers-by on both sides of the road were ragged, pale and thin, like refugees fleeing famine in ancient times.
From time to time, you would see people gathered together, kneeling on the ground praying, and someone who looked like a missionary would preach to everyone.
What's going on? Gu Nian quickly asked Xu Can: "What sects do these religious people believe in?"
Could it be that the Bethida sect could now openly preach in Ancheng?
Xu Can simply told her: "Both."
"Under the natural disaster, people have completely lost hope. There are now hundreds of sects of all sizes in Ancheng, and people have completely turned to religion to seek some psychological comfort. We have no way to ban it. Once we lose this last placebo, all we will face is riots."
Only then did Gu Nian realize that Ancheng had become a city of utter despair.
Xu Can took Gu Nian and his group to their accommodation. This was an abandoned, empty residential area, quiet and remote, and considered an unowned land, perfect for Gu Nian and his group to set up camp.
If Gu Nian and others stayed in the hotel, they would be too conspicuous.
In this way, Gu Nian and his group quietly integrated into Ancheng.
Xu Can told Gu Nian that she had not found the Bethida sect in Ancheng. Now it seems that the people sent by Tian Jiaoyang probably disguised themselves and infiltrated other missionary teams, or changed the skin of a religion to continue their evil deeds.
However, among the many sects in Ancheng, it was impossible to look for members of the Bethida sect in a high-profile manner, as this would only arouse public anger.
Xu Can advised Gu Nian and others to stay first and then look for an opportunity.
This is all we can do now.
Unfortunately, Yuejian's divination was completely ineffective for the axis of the planet. However, it proved that the axis of the planet must be something extraordinary to avoid Yuejian's detection.
Gu Nian also brought a lot of supplies with him when he came to Ancheng this time, many of which were sea monsters killed in Haicheng. Tu Jing took these meats out and planned to sell them out, taking this opportunity to see if he could find out any information.
Gu Nian also went out with Yue Jian.
She carefully observed the believers and missionaries on both sides of the road. Many sects had even developed doctrines and had begun to grow in size.
At this time, she noticed that someone was holding a statue for worship, and the shape of the statue was extremely strange.
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