Spirit Realm
According to the information given by the psychic, there are no less than a thousand mountains where red flame cotton is planted in the Fire Gate. No matter how fast the teleportation array moves, it can only travel through two or three mountains in half an hour.
Even if all fifty members of the joint team were dispersed, the probability of finding Yongan would be low.
Before Shi Xizheng gave the order, Gus and the psychic were inclined to go directly to Fengyu Temple, betting that Yongan would return after grabbing the Red Flame Cotton.
However, Shi Xizheng suddenly gave the exact location.
Gus: "Huowu Temple? Did President Lu get any clues?"
Shi Xizheng neither confirmed nor denied it, but listed five mountains with fire gates in succession, including Huowu Temple.
"According to the clues I have, Yong'an's next target is one of these five mountains. Gus, the medium, you two will follow me to Huowu Temple. The rest of us will split into four groups, each heading to a different location. If you find anything, report it immediately via the chat."
Shi Xizheng's tone was firm, but he failed to convince Gus.
"Council President Lu has a clue. Can I take a look at it?"
The psychic has been observing Shi Xizheng. His completely different behavior before and after has made her guess that the clue was given by Chu Mo.
The psychic smiled and glanced at Gus. "I don't want to talk about it right now, because it's confidential. What's the matter, Old Ghost? Are you questioning our Dragon Flame's intelligence analysis capabilities, or are you trying to learn the secrets of the Dragon Breath Group?"
For people with a certain status, the name of the Dragon Breath Group is no less intimidating than the Dragon Flame Guild.
In fact, because the Dragon Breath Group has the power to mobilize many real-world departments, it is even more feared than guilds confined to the game.
Gus glanced at the psychic and said nothing more.
The psychic then asked Shi Xizheng a question: "Later, since there are five options, why don't you let Lao Gui and I lead the team separately?"
This arrangement also reveals a bit of weirdness.
Because this was not Shi Xizheng's arrangement at all.
Chu Mo's first message gave Yong'an the next destination.
But there was a second message: [You can only bring the medium and Gus. I will kill any other person who comes with you.]
If it were anyone else, they wouldn’t understand the purpose of removing the ink, but Shi Xizheng understood it.
Using other super gods to open the Ghost Ruins has always been a strategy of Chu Mo. If too many people go there, there will be too many people sharing the Yongan mission experience.
The Ghost Ruins may not be able to be opened.
Zhan Xingce was a smart man, so the psychic was naturally not stupid. Shi Xizheng could see that the psychic was just trying to help Gus out with his questioning.
Don't talk too much to smart people.
Shi Xizheng smiled and said, "With you and Gus here, I don't have to worry about safety issues."
This answer was beyond the psychic's expectations.
She looked at Shi Xizheng meaningfully and chuckled, "That was a bit too humorous a moment ago. But the logic is correct. Old ghost, stop dithering and let's go."
The other team members quickly divided into groups and followed the three people to the teleportation array on the mountainside.
Everyone activated their mobility skills and arrived in two or three minutes. Shi Xizheng, the medium, and Gus were the first to teleport and were already standing on the formation pattern.
"Huo Wu Guan."
The psychic read out the name, looked at Shi Xizheng with a smile, and stepped on the protruding stone with his toes.
A moment later, they appeared in another teleportation array.
Before the light of the array pattern faded away, Shi Xizheng rushed out.
Compared with the majestic Huoshou Temple, Huowu Temple is like a hill, with no steep peak, only long gentle slopes.
The center of the gentle slope is a valley, the edge of the valley is a residential area, and red flame cotton is spread all over the valley.
——Most of the hills used to grow pharmaceutical raw materials have a similar layout.
Shi Xizheng quickly scanned the map.
Although he wasn't on the Destiny Ranking, he was still a mid-level God player, and his movement speed was quite fast. In a blink of an eye, he passed through the residential area and saw a blazing field.
Water is the life of man, fire is the essence of man. Red flame cotton is the raw material for making spiritual potions.
As the name suggests, the cotton growing from the stalks of Red Flame Cotton resembles a ball of orange-yellow flame. It has no temperature and is harmless to both humans and ghouls.
All the disciples of the Huo Sect in Huowu Temple have been dispatched. More than a hundred of them have set up a weak and loose defense line around the vast cotton field.
One of them saw Shi Xi coming and was about to step forward to stop him, but recognized the psychic behind him and quietly retreated.
Shi Xi was standing at the edge of the cotton field, looking around, like an ant prowling outside the forest.
The psychic used the wind created by the peach blossom fan to float into the air, looked down from the air, and then fanned the peach blossom fan in the opposite direction, landing next to Shi Xizheng.
"After a while, there was no sign of damage to the cotton fields."
Gus: "Let's exclude Huowu Temple and move on to the next place."
"Wait, maybe we arrived too early, and the speed of the teleportation array is faster than Yong'an's speed through the Chaos Star Array." Shi Xizheng said.
The clues given by Qimo cannot be false.
Gus: "Since President Lu gave five suspected locations, it's more likely that Yong'an has already reached the other four mountains. I suggest supporting the other teams immediately!"
Shi Xizheng said nothing, his eyes fixed on the night sky illuminated by the fire.
"Or is it that there aren't five suspected locations, but only one?!"
Gus suddenly burst out with the might of a top super god, pinched Shi Xizheng's shoulders hard, and forced him to look at him.
"President Lu deliberately dispersed the power of the joint team. What is his purpose?!"
"Old ghost..." the psychic interrupted.
Gus shouted, "Stop covering up for him!"
But the psychic spoke again: "Old ghost! Look up!"
Gus was startled, and then he realized that Shi Xi was looking up from beginning to end, with a changing dark light reflected in his eyes.
He looked up suddenly.
The lingering sound of the wind blown by the medium's peach blossom fan had not yet dissipated. The night wind blew back and forth in the valley, making the red flames of the cotton ball look like reeds in a strong wind, sometimes falling to the left and sometimes to the right.
The night sky flickered with the light of the fire.
At the highest point, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared in the crimson sky, like a broken piece of sky, falling to the earth at an alarming speed.
In a flash, light screens popped up in front of the three people, but no one had time to read the task information on them.
Shi Xizheng yelled, "We can't let it fall to the ground!"
Once on the ground, the ghoul can use the ghost technique "pseudo-hiding" to hide in the mountain.
The medium quickly raised the peach blossom fan.
The flower pythons on Gus's arms once again turned into rocket launchers and were placed on his shoulders.
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As a ghoul differentiated from Zhang Da, Zhang Wu is the ghost flesh locator arranged by An Rou to Huo Wu Temple.
Following Zhang Da's guidance, Bao Fu took the shortest route through the Chaos Star Array and approached the Huowu Temple.
An Rou raised her head slightly and connected with Zhang Wu's consciousness.
After seeing what Zhang Wu had seen, she smiled and said, "As expected, they guessed we were going to steal the Red Flame Cotton. All the Fire Sect disciples at Huowu Temple have been dispatched."
"Where is Zhang Wu?" Paopao asked.
"It disguised itself as a disciple of the Fire Sect and sneaked into the blockade without being discovered."
"Our farm staff are becoming increasingly skilled at disguising themselves as players," Paopao said with a smile, then asked, "The joint team isn't here, right?"
An Rou shook her head: "Zhang Wu didn't see it, nor did he find it. Bao Bao, speed up the landing."
"Yes, Master."
Unexpectedly, An Rou quickly changed her words: "Wait!"
But it was too late. Huowuguan was right in front of Baofu. With a slight acceleration, it broke through the invisible boundary between the Chaos Star Array and the airspace and crashed into the mountain.
Through the vision of rapid wealth, An Rou saw a burning land, which was exactly the red cotton field that Zhang Wu saw.
And above the earth, there was a tiny human figure.
Psychic.
An Rou could see clearly through Zhang Wu's eyes that he was a psychic!
How is that possible? With so many mountains planted with red flame cotton, how could the joint team have accurately found Huowu Temple?!
An Rou didn't have time to think: "Bao Bao, get out!"
The Chaos Star Array is the best hiding place, and we must withdraw from the Chaos Star Array immediately.
However, when Baofu crashed into Huowu Temple's airspace, it was moving in the opposite direction, carrying with it a tremendous inertial force. Furthermore, the mountain and its airspace, moving at high speed, exerted a centrifugal force as powerful as gravity.
Because of the existence of the two, Bao Fu crashed directly into the mountain, and using a false ambush to dissolve the impact force was the safest and most labor-saving way.
But the joint team had already set up an ambush in advance, and doing so would be tantamount to walking into a trap.
"Don't land!" An Rou emphasized again.
Getting rich quick is doing everything possible.
The airspace of Huowuguan was about several hundred meters high. After it rushed for a while, its speed dropped significantly.
However, even Bao Fu himself did not realize that because he was too focused on slowing down, the ghost technique "Night Walk" lost its best protective color.
The black fog rolled and swirled, and its outline gradually became apparent under the light of the fire.
A hurricane was born on the edge of the cotton field. Wherever it passed, the cotton flowers flew higher and higher like burning dandelions.
It was a rapidly growing red flame tornado, and the fire mouth at the top was expanding with terrifying momentum, trying to engulf the black clouds falling from the sky.
Another attack, faster than this one.
The rocket launcher dragged a dazzling light and plunged straight into the dark clouds.
A roar erupted from the dark clouds.
An Rou was stunned for a moment.
She had originally thought that the independent space created by Night Walk was just an invulnerable phantom from the outside. But the rocket launcher actually hit her and exploded.
Thick white smoke suddenly swept across the surrounding area.
This rocket launcher not only hit Bo Fu, it was like a thick and long iron rod that pierced An Rou's brain.
If An Rou hadn't been surrounded by tentacles, the severe headache would have caused her to fall to the ground.
She knew that this was a side effect of connecting to the ghoul's consciousness, and could also be understood as backlash.
Once a ghoul is attacked, different degrees of injury will be converted into different degrees of pain and transmitted into her mind.
However, in the past, it was just a slight pain, which An Rou could completely ignore with her willpower. But this time was different. The headache was so severe that the veins in her forehead were throbbing.
This bullet not only hit Bao Fu, but also caused it serious injuries!
Who else but Gus could use thermal weapons in the spiritual realm and possess such powerful attack power?
Number five on the Destiny List is indeed not to be underestimated.
The situation of those on the list four and five combined is very similar to the situation not long ago when they were hunted down by those on the list eight and nine!
In order to deal with Kaishi and Witt, Anrou put a lot of thought into the plan. Now she is unexpectedly besieged by the psychic and Gus. Without a doubt, this is the most dangerous moment for her to get rich quickly.
An Rou did not dare to take it lightly at all. Without even taking a breath, she stared at the thick fog with wide eyes through her suddenly rich vision.
The gray-white smoke caused by the rocket explosion was so thick that it completely blocked the flames of the red flame cotton.
The red flame tornado blew up by the psychic is already very close. Perhaps in the next second, a flare will emerge and swallow up the rich man.
It was obvious that the two top players cooperated well with each other and used their skills with perfect timing.
The tornado came from below, and its impact spread so quickly that there was only one way to survive.
“…”
An Rou opened her mouth and found that she had lost her voice due to the severe pain.
She immediately communicated with Bao Fu through her consciousness: [Fly up there, Bao Fu, withdraw the Chaos Star Formation…]
The rocket launcher attack is not without benefits. It offsets some of the inertia of the sudden landing.
However, An Rou was stunned as soon as she finished speaking: "...Bao Bao, why did Bao Bao cut off the connection with consciousness?!"
There is only one reason, the red flame tornado has hit Baofu, causing it to suffer even more damage.
The sudden wealth showed nothing. Its soul appeared before her, and two jade-white palms gently covered her temples.
The slight coolness in her palms quickly dispelled An Rou's severe headache.
"Master has always been the one protecting me. This time, please trust me."
"...What are you talking about? Those are the fourth and fifth on the list! Quick, don't confront them head-on, return to the Chaos Star Formation!"
A crack appeared in the void above An Rou's head.
With her naked eyes, she could see a dazzling light, and in front of the light was a missile that was much larger than a □□.
It had already passed the height of the disaster and came to dozens of meters above it. After a slight pause, it suddenly exploded.
No, not an explosion, but a fission.
At the end of each spark of that brilliant firework was a rocket. In the limited space visible through the crack alone, there were dozens of rockets.
They form a large dotted network, cutting off the escape route for those who get rich quickly.
An Rou's heart sank.
The cracks quickly closed up, and the entire void within Bao Fu's body began to vibrate.
Those rocket launchers, so many rocket launchers, all exploded on the rich.
No wonder Bao Fu wanted to cut off the connection of consciousness, otherwise An Rou would have fainted from the pain at this moment.
"Baobao..."
Bao Fu loosened his hand, and his thumb gently stroked An Rou's eyebrows from the center to the tip of her eyebrows, wiping away the last trace of pain in An Rou's brain.
"Master, trust me."
Before he finished speaking, his soul dispersed into countless points of light and attached to the tentacles of the void. The trembling void immediately stabilized.
An Rou vaguely heard a familiar roar.
She looked around in a daze. Paopao, Zhang Da, and the four recovered ghoul employees were looking at her.
As ghouls, they have a keen sense of highly threatening high-level players in various aspects, so Zhang Da and the others are probably aware of the current critical situation, and they all look a little irritated and uneasy.
But Paopao didn’t know.
Paopao walked over and asked, "Boss, is the joint team chasing us?"
"It's... the psychic and Gus."
An Rou raised the back of her hand and pressed hard against her brow. "Paopao, under what circumstances will the "night walk" state of sudden wealth be broken?"
Paopao's expression also became serious.
He pondered, "Night Walk combines movement and spatial skills, just like high-level space. It can be broken with enough attack power. Since Rich Brother is a ghoul, some skills that are effective against ghouls can also be broken."
He thought of something and his tone became even lower.
"Boss, do you still remember the old guy? When the old guy flew to the Ghost Ruins for the last time, the sword energy of the flying sword was able to dissolve the ghouls. And when Ali got the Seven Souls Sword and was swallowed by the rich brother, he was able to use the sword energy of the Seven Souls Sword to break through the void."
"The player's level and the weapon's level." An Rou summarized, becoming increasingly uneasy.
Needless to say, Psychic and Gus have no shortage of both.
"Boss, how about I go out with Lao Zhang and the others to help?"
More people means more strength.
Zhang Da took a step forward, responding to Paopao's suggestion. The other four ghoul employees also followed their ghost mother and moved forward silently.
An Rou rejected it after a brief consideration.
"Bao Bao asked us to believe in him. We..." An Rou bit her lower lip, "believe in him."
Believing that getting rich quickly doesn’t mean just sitting there and waiting for death, An Rou connected with Zhang Wu’s consciousness.
Although Zhang Wu was only A-rank and couldn't help Fu Fu, his disguise as a Fire Gate player at least allowed An Rou to follow the battle.
The first scene is shocking.
Bao Fu must have just landed on the ground, and the bone knives on his hind legs supported his huge body and let out a deafening roar.
"Night Walk" has lost its effect, and his broad, white back is covered with embers from the explosion.
The impact of the rocket launcher failed to penetrate the body, but the high temperature ignited the surface, forming a continuous red and black wound.
These scars healed themselves at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Baofu's erect body fell down, and his forelimbs supported the ground with the bone knife. The bone knife was very long, making Baofu look like a huge ceiling, allowing Zhang Wu to see clearly what was underneath him.
It's even more terrible than the injury on my back.
All the bone blades were broken, with varying lengths, and sparks could be seen at the fractures.
That was the work of a psychic.
Those Mars were like living things, climbing up little by little, but were hindered by the self-healing ability of the sudden wealth, advancing and retreating against each other.
An Rou then noticed that the same thing happened to the bone knife on Bao Fu's forelimb. The bone knife, hundreds of meters long, looked like metal, half of it was burned red.
This... how painful...
An Rou couldn't help but grit her teeth.
The medium moved.
She flew into the air, and the peach blossom fan in her hand became larger than her, just like the Princess Iron Fan in mythology.
Every time the peach blossom fan waved, her figure changed unpredictably and a gust of fiery wind blew up.
In just a blink of an eye, the psychic left four afterimages in the air.
Obviously, her target was the wealthy Bone Knife.
Compared with the living dead like Zhang Da, the Berserker Ghoul has a natural disadvantage - except for ghost magic, it cannot use the player's skills.
But there are also advantages. The self-healing ability is enhanced, and some mutated organs can become alien weapons with different attack methods.
The bone blades transformed from Baofu's ribs and the bone knives transformed from his limbs are his natural weapons.
At this moment, most of the bone blade has been destroyed, and the only threat to Gao Yi is the bone knife.
The psychic's thinking was very clear. As soon as the fortune landed, he would attack the bone knife. If he could destroy it, that would be the best. If not, he would use it as a diversion to distract the ghoul.
Because she is not fighting alone.
Gus moved too.
When the hot wind blew, the flower python on Gus's left arm turned into a □□ and shot towards Bao Fu's head.
The crossbow arrow was as fast as a meteor and reached Baofu's eyebrows in a blink of an eye. Baofu just avoided it, but his ultimate goal was obviously not to shoot him.
The arrowhead exploded into a spinning blade, suddenly changing direction, dragging the thin rope at the tail of the arrow, and wrapped around Baofu's neck twice.
The rope instantly stretched straight, carrying Gus high into the air.
The flower python on Gus's right arm gathered in his right hand and turned into a sniper rifle.
He had a stocky build and tremendous arm strength, and he managed to hold the sniper rifle steadily with one hand, resting the mount against his shoulder, his movements smooth and swift.
The muzzle of the sniper rifle was aimed at Bao Fu's head, and even when moving at high speed, there was no deviation at all.
An Rou's heart instantly rose to her throat.
At this moment, Zhang Wu's vision suddenly shifted to the disciples of Huomen in the distance.
Those mid- and low-level players finally recovered from the shock of seeing the SSS-level ghoul and fled to the residential area in panic.
The body of this top-level ghoul after its crazy transformation was so huge that no one dared to stay and have a sip of its soup during the chaos.
At the edge of the cotton field closest to the residential area, a figure stood still, ignoring the players running around.
An Rou didn't have time to identify the other party and ordered Zhang Wu: [Look back at Bao Bao!]
When the focus refocused on Bao Fu, Gus just pulled the trigger of the sniper rifle.
A blue bullet shot out from the slender barrel. As the flight distance lengthened, a vortex of black air appeared at the head of the bullet.
An Rou instantly thought of the wheel of the cutting machine.
"Hide quickly, Baobao, hide quickly..."
As if in response to her whisper, the rich and magnificent body suddenly sank, and the hot wind enveloped the entire body, making it as red as a flat iron.
To dodge bullets means to throw yourself into the arms of the Foehn wind.
How much less damage can a Foehn wind do than a bullet?
Sure enough, the empty space inside Bao Fu's body was destroyed, and holes with sparks appeared around him one after another, as if a black wallpaper was licked through by flames.
The tentacles melted away the moment they touched the flames.
An Rou vaguely saw that before the tentacle disappeared, the white ghoul at the end hugged its head and raised its face, as if letting out a silent and painful scream.
The hole appeared for a moment and was instantly filled by sudden wealth.
In Zhang Wu's sight, the sudden wealth disappeared.
An Rou knew that Bao Fu must have used the ghost technique of "false hiding" to disappear into the ground.
But it couldn't escape the pursuit of the two top players.
The thin rope of arrows was still wrapped around its neck, guiding Gus.
The sniper rifle is the weapon with the strongest penetrating power that the flower python can transform into. Gus still uses the sniper rifle, aiming at the direction of the thin rope and continuously pulling the trigger.
The medium flew in mid-air, aiming in the direction Gus was aiming, and kept waving the peach blossom fan.
Piece after piece of thick soil was pulled out.
She was cooperating with Gus, trying to interfere with Baofu's movement speed underground and increase the probability of the sniper rifle hitting the target.
The sudden wealth keeps shifting locations.
The psychic and Gus changed their shapes.
Finally, Gus felt the pulling force of the thin rope in his hand weakened, and the ghoul began to slow down.
He and the medium exchanged glances.
With just one glance, the psychic understood what he meant.
There is no need to interfere anymore, but use the sniper rifle and the peach blossom fan to give the ghoul a fatal blow.
The two men attacked at the same time.
An invisible gust of wind shoveled into the ground, sending up vast swathes of crimson flames. Amidst the swaying flames, a sniper bullet sank into the spot Gus had predicted.
That's the ghoul's head.
A dull roar suddenly erupted from underground, and a massive creature leaped out of the ground. The overwhelming roar drowned out a strange sound echoing in the air.
Buzz——
The psychic lowered his eyes in disbelief.
The peach blossom fan was flipping and falling, and an arm was connected to the handle of the fan.
Her arm.
Not just the right arm, but also the left arm and both legs, and... the entire lower body.
It’s broken…all broken.
The smooth wound spurted out lines of blood, which, along with some broken internal organs, were scattered onto the red flame cotton.
What the hell is going on...
Without the support of the peach blossom fan's wind, the medium began to fall.
Her astonished eyes suddenly fixed on a certain place, and then she twisted her neck with all her strength to look in other directions.
She saw four charred, straight shadows.
That's the ghoul's bone knife.
The psychic suddenly understood that the reason why the ghoul was willing to take the damage from the foehn wind and sink into the ground was to extinguish the flames on the bone knife.
During the escape, he took the opportunity to attract her and Gus and let the bone knife appear quietly in four directions.
It wasn't the entire body that was moving, but only the head was moving within the huge body.
She kept changing the position of her head, hanging a thin rope on the bone knife, and when the rope was wide enough to surround her, she retracted the bone knife at the same time.
She... was torn into pieces by the thin rope that was stretched straight in an instant!
This method requires a prerequisite: the attack power of the thin rope can break her passive defense.
This premise was met from the beginning—what Gus held in his hand was the highest-level purple weapon.
This ghoul...is this really the intelligence a crazy-transformed ghoul can possess?!
At the edge of the cotton field, An Rou and the psychic figured out the secret at the same time.
Turning sorrow into joy happens so quickly.
"Baobao, well done!"
An Rou didn't have the idea of getting rich quickly, and she spoke directly in the void, "Take the opportunity to eat her!"
By eating the fourth on the list, Su Fu can quickly replenish his energy. Not only can he fight Gus head-on, but he may also be able to devour Gus and further enhance his strength.
An Rou didn't get a response.
She heard Paopao's uneasy voice: "Boss...tentacles...tentacles!"
Joy turns to sorrow so quickly.
In the void inside Bao Fu's body, all the tentacles were twisting wildly, and the ghouls at the ends were struggling to break away from the tentacles, gathering together and scurrying like locusts.
“…Eleven o’clock?”
Paopao quickly turned on the screen and took a look: "Yes, eleven o'clock!"
At eleven o'clock, which is the midnight, the rootless flowers bloom and the red flame cotton matures.
It didn’t matter before, but now, this time means that the sudden wealth has entered a period of weakness.
An Rou couldn't help but curse.
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