Chapter 131 Ability Enhancement
“Tick…tick…”
Lilith sat on the brown bear and looked up. She could hear the sound of water drops dripping onto the ground, but she didn't feel any rain.
It wasn't raining and there were no tall buildings overhead. What could be making the sound?
Captain Robbins was obviously used to the anomaly. He directed Jayne and Lanci to explore forward, while the rest of the team surrounded Lilith, protecting her like a ring.
"You can't use common sense to understand what's happening in contaminated areas. Sometimes you think you hear a cry for help, but it's actually just the wind blowing through an abandoned building. Just like now, the sound of dripping water might be coming from an underground river."
Considering that Lilith didn't know the situation in the contaminated area, Robbins explained carefully,
"If we are attracted by the sounds on the surface, it is easy to ignore the dangers lurking in the dark. Those pollutants like to take advantage of our distractions to attack us."
After he finished speaking, he frowned, and Lilith's expression became as cold as his. The ground beneath their feet trembled slightly, and then suddenly subsided.
Like a giant's feet landing on hard ground.
"Something's approaching!"
Lilith warned, and the members of the exploration team quickly took combat stances. Lanqi's voice came from the front, sounding a little distorted.
"Captain, the target is suspected to be a Class A single pollutant, over three meters high!"
"Ordinary bullets can't penetrate, Captain, requesting the use of special weapons."
The conversation took only a moment. Robbins responded briefly, and a crackling sound exploded not far from Lilith.
Of course, the moment the noise started, the white fox jumped onto the brown bear's shoulders and covered her ears with her soft tail.
"Shen Jiaxu, let it go."
No sentinel could accept a spirit of the same kind approaching him. If Robbins hadn't considered Lilith still on his shoulder, he would have had the brown bear wave its claws to chase them away.
The white fox wagged its tail and looked at Lilith aggrievedly, but obeyed its master's order and left.
"Captain, you are too thick-skinned!"
Jayne screamed in agony. After all, it would be easier to solve the problem by covering it with firepower. Only those who cannot be killed by weapons will be affected by their spiritual bodies.
"I'll go first!"
The next moment, warm light covered his body, and the bird with a sharp beak suddenly expanded to twice its size, and its beak with a cold light pierced into the pollutants like a sword.
"Spiritual Guidance", "Spiritual Purification", "Temporary Marking", and the "Ability Amplification" that Lilith showed at this moment, which is unique to powerful guides,
Lilith focused on fusing her mental power with Jayne's. The stability of the guide allowed the sentinel to not be disturbed by external objects even in battle.
Jayne instantly felt like he was injected with stimulants, his whole body boiling with the desire to fight. He suppressed his inner restlessness and bit off the enemy's flesh with force.
Lanqi also received a boost. He glanced at Lilith briskly and threw himself into the battle.
In three minutes, the Class A single pollutant was eliminated, and the huge monster fell to the ground with a loud bang, causing the thick fog to quietly disperse slightly.
"Hmm, Captain, it's easy. The center of the contaminated area seems to be just like this."
"Don't be careless. This is just the beginning. If R hadn't helped you, you and Lanqi would have wasted a lot of time."
After Robbins finished speaking, he asked worriedly,
"R, are you okay? If your mental strength can't hold up, we can take turns repairing and replenishing you, or you can temporarily not increase the power. At most, the exploration speed will be slower."
Lilith weighed her own mental power. Amplifying the two sentinels didn't consume too much of her mental power. On the contrary, she felt that her mental sea had quietly expanded.
The light in the spiritual sea attracted the other sentinels to approach her, and the spreading elderberry flowers quietly dissolved when they reached a certain limit.
If she keeps pushing her limits, Lilith believes that one day, she will be able to successfully break through the S-level with her own strength. Now, she should first find a way to truly upgrade to the A-level.
"I'm fine, Captain. I want to check on the contaminant."
If the pollutant is an out-of-control sentinel, she can purify it and then devour the ownerless spirit to enhance her own strength.
"That's fine, but not too close. The pollution concentration in the central area is too high. I'm afraid of accidents."
"good."
The brown bear led Lilith over and stopped about one step away from the pollutant. Looking down from above, Lilith noticed that the pollutant this time was different from the previous ones. It didn't look like a sentinel, but more like an ordinary animal that had mutated.
Covered in black and gray hair, with two large pointed ears stained with green blood, there was nothing human-like about his body.
Perhaps seeing the surprise in her eyes, Robbins explained softly,
"While there are quite a few out-of-control sentinels in the pollutants, even more are the animals and plants that originally lived here. Over time, they've become like this."
I don't know if purifying animals can also improve mental strength. Lilith originally wanted to try it, but was immediately stopped.
Shen Jiaxu looked at her with some disapproval.
"It's okay if it's just a human, but who knows how long this thing has lived in the contaminated area. What if you get hurt if you act rashly? We're planning to go deep into the contaminated area because of you."
No matter what, the safety of the living teammates should be guaranteed first. Lilith immediately gave up the idea of purification and planned to continue moving forward with the team.
Lanqi was responsible for completely burning the pollutants. A foul smell followed. Lilith frowned. Her eyes inadvertently swept over the corpse and stopped at the end of the slender tail.
There seems to be a leaf growing there?
It was so strange that grass full of vitality suddenly grew in this rotten, abandoned, polluted area full of corruption.
No, it doesn't seem to be leaves, it's green, roots.
"You said before that the contaminated area is spreading?"
Lilith tried to speak calmly, her eyes trembling slightly under her helmet.
"Well, we've been trying to find a way to stop this, but we haven't found one yet. Perhaps if we continue exploring and find the source of the pollution, we can get the answer."
"Captain, have you ever seen a shrub in the desert? On the surface, it's just a curled-up ball, but in fact, its roots, buried in the sand, have spread dozens of times larger than its body. We're like we're standing on top of those roots right now."
Lilith pointed to the ground. Under the cover of flames, the bodies of the pollutants were rapidly decomposing.
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