Chapter 103

The special team 2 who were fighting a strange monster in Luping City suddenly felt an unusual movement of the thin spiritual power around them. Someone in the team retreated after being attacked. During this brief gap, he looked up at the sky and saw the phantom of a tea tree that blocked out the sun.

I don’t know where this phantom of a tea tree came from. It feels so far away that I can’t even trace its origin. Yet, it also seems to be right in front of me. Every grain on the trunk, every outstretched branch, every green leaf… are all clearly visible.

This kind of strange phenomenon in heaven and earth is rare even in the inner world. Now that it has appeared in the outer world, it has even caused the spiritual energy of the entire area to surge. It is almost unheard of.

The members of Group 2 were shocked: "What is that?!"

His scream attracted the attention of others. The other members who were struggling with the strange monster looked up at the sky in between dealing with the monster. Everyone saw the huge and magnificent phantom of the tea tree that blocked out the sky.

"Is this... a tea tree?" The leader of Team 2 had a lot of experience in carrying out missions over the years, but he had never encountered a situation like this before. "Who made such a big noise?"

Friend or foe?

The words rolled around on his tongue, but he didn't say them out loud.

Just by looking at the shadow of the tea tree, one can tell that the one who can cause such a strange phenomenon is definitely not a human. However, among the non-human leaders on the list of their Alien Bureau, none has ever heard of anyone whose true form is a tea tree.

If it was an enemy... the heart of the leader of Group 2 sank. Perhaps, the lives of the people in Chongming City would be difficult to save.

“Zheng!”

Suddenly a long knife stretched out from the side, the blade flashed slightly, and some smelly blood splashed out.

"Team leader! Now is not the time to be distracted!" The team leader of Team 2 heard the voice of the deputy team leader who was disappointed with the team's failure to make it work, "Deal with what's in front of you first!"

The leader of their second group is a rare non-combat leader among the top ten groups. His combat power is only above average, so he usually does not take action unless necessary.

But the result of the occupation showed that the "material" of Luping City was in the center of the lake. The lake covered a very large area and there was almost no place to stand on the lake. They could be so flexible on the sparkling lake surface, all thanks to the mechanical beast developed by their team leader.

The deputy team leader, who was the strongest in the team, saved their team leader who had just lost focus for a moment, and then used his ingenuity to throw him out of the monster's temporary attack circle: "You just stay in the back and coordinate. Seize the opportunity to replenish the monster for us!"

The strange monster they encountered this time was the remains of a toad that had been sleeping under the lake for who knows how many years. After the mutation, half of it was rotten flesh and the other half was white bones, and it had a forked tongue like a snake's tongue and was covered with pus.

In addition to attacking people with its tongue, its half-rotten flesh would also spray out highly poisonous pus, which would seriously injure anyone who came into contact with it. They were caught off guard and one of their team members was seriously injured at the beginning.

The leader of Team 2 was not angry even when he was thrown out of the attack circle by the deputy leader, because every time there was a battle that required high-intensity attacks, the deputy leader would toss him around like this, and he was used to it.

The leader of Group Two muttered to himself, and wooden birds, glass swans, and steel falcons flew out from the void. Some flew to the feet of the team members to replace the mechanical beasts that were about to be damaged, some flew around the toad's remains, disrupting its movements, and some followed closely, waiting for an opportunity to attack.

They have good coordination in attack and still have some strength to spare, so there are no major problems for the time being. However, the fifth group going to Cangxi City will not be so lucky.

If the "material" encountered by Group 2 is a mutated whole, as long as the mutated whole is controlled, it will not cause too much harm to ordinary people around it. What Group 5 encountered are scattered "individuals".

The "material" in Cangxi City is hidden in the city center park. It is a mushroom that is only the length of a human finger and can change color.

A park covers a large area with lush vegetation and trees. Finding a tiny mushroom that is more hidden than a chameleon in a park is as difficult as the Arabian Nights.

The reason why they were able to identify mushrooms as the "ingredients" for their evil deeds was because after entering Cangxi City, they discovered that some people had obvious abnormalities - their eyes were red, their personalities were fierce and extreme, and they would even start fighting on the spot if they disagreed with someone.

After trying to test them, they found that they all carried spores so small that they were almost invisible. However, Cangxi City has a population of 600,000 to 700,000, so they had no choice but to use a large amount of talismans and array storage to narrow down the target and further lock it on the central park.

But no one has any idea how to catch the evil mushroom.

The first ten special teams are already small in number and are elite operations. It is obviously impractical to search every inch, and most importantly, there is not enough time.

Ordinary people controlled by the spores would even rush up and chase them after discovering them, as if they had seen living zombies.

If you ignore it, ordinary people will chase after it. If you care about it, you will have to waste spiritual energy and talismans. The trick of knocking people unconscious will not work at all. People possessed by spores are in a special state of excitement. They are as strong as an ox and cannot communicate. The worst thing is that if the spores stay on the same person for too long, they can slowly infect the outside world!

It's not like the Special Five had never carried out difficult missions before, but few missions had constrained them as much as this one. For a while, they were in a mess and felt very frustrated.

After sending another group of people to the parking lot and removing the spores from them, the only pharmacist in Group 5 turned pale with exhaustion: "Team Leader, come up with a solution quickly. If you do this two more times, I'll be exhausted!"

If it weren't for the fact that people who have been cleared of spores will not be infected again in a short period of time, I can't imagine how this mission will be carried out.

"The 'materials' in Cangxi City are too scattered. I have already submitted an emergency request for help." The leader of Group 5 pulled a handful of his hair in pain. "We have to hold on until help arrives. It would be even better if we can catch the evil mushroom."

After making sure that all the spores on the people in the underground parking lot were cleared and they fell into a normal temporary coma, the five groups dragged their tired steps out of the parking lot.

"Spiritual power is rioting?" The person among them who was most sensitive to spiritual power suddenly widened his eyes, and found that no one responded to him. Everyone raised their heads and looked up at the sky.

He was a little puzzled, so he looked up as well—the sky was blocked out by tea trees.

"What is that..." he whispered softly, "Is it a miracle?"

Under his gaze, a leaf suddenly fell from the giant tea tree and flew straight towards Group 5, as if it had crossed the space in an instant. Under the gaze of everyone in Group 5, it suddenly turned into a crane made of green leaves and flapped its wings to fly towards the central park.

“Is this leading us?!”

I don't know who cried out in surprise first.

"Stay alert." The leader of Group 5 stared at the flying green crane, his expression changing several times, and finally he gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "Let's follow it and see!"

*

Yu Tu feels very strange now.

He felt like he was a seed that was sprouting and growing rapidly, and his perception seemed to spread to far, far places as the seed grew.

With Sitai Mountain in Wutong Town as the center, he “saw” many scenes—

In front of the destroyed old building in Huailin Town, an armored vehicle stopped and people got off the vehicle with instruments to confirm. On the vast lake in Luping City, there was a thing that looked like a toad, spitting out its tongue and attacking. In the desolate and unattended cemetery in Qiuxu Town, bones protruded from under the soil. In Cangxi City, spores were everywhere, constantly infecting people...

In the battles in the first three places, humans had the upper hand, except in Cangxi City, which seemed to pale in comparison. Yu Tu "saw" it, and he wanted to help.

Almost as soon as he thought about it, pure energy left his body, turned into spirit, and traveled a thousand miles in an instant. In his 360-degree vision, there seemed to be a small branch - it was the energy heading towards the special five groups.

Even if he didn't pay attention to it anymore, he was certain that the crane transformed from energy would be able to find the mushroom that was causing him so much pain.

His perception "sees" farther.

He saw chaotic crowds, overcrowded hospitals, and many people taking out their phones to take pictures of "him"...

Yu Tu: “……?”

The huge perception confused his thoughts and made his reaction a little slow.

Why take a picture of him?

This insignificant question only stayed in his perception for a moment, and he soon stopped paying attention to it.

All his attention was focused on the incredibly spectacular reverse fountain next to him.

He heard a rustling sound, as if leaves and branches were shaking.

The huge branch violently whipped the reverse fountain, white lines splashed in all directions, and some kind of vague mysterious law was temporarily disrupted at this moment. The backflowing "fountain" stopped, and an eye appeared at the bottom of the spring—

A terrifying white round eyeball with a thin, snake-like pupil in the middle.

The eye stared at him quietly.

Yu Tu felt a chill for a moment.

Then comes anger.

The tea tree that blocked out the sun and sky became more and more illusory, and the branches lashed harder and harder, leaving several blood-red scratches of varying degrees of severity on the eyeballs.

The reverse fountain became more and more fragmented.

When the shadow of the tea tree completely disappeared, the bloody eyeball was covered by the surging white lines, but the new reverse fountain was much thinner.

In the distant capital, in an emergency meeting, a rare and precious magic weapon was consuming a huge amount of spirit stones like a gold-devouring beast.

"Is that tea tree shadow an enemy or a friend?"

Someone asked in a dry voice.

Even from the distant capital city of Beijing, they could see clearly the shadows of the tea trees that blocked out the sun.

A beautiful mirror-like instrument was suspended in the air, the mirror surface was shimmering and a soft green color was rippling.

A friend, not an enemy.