The situation in the city made Chen Lin frown.
According to the information from the Presbyterian Church, this team seeking help sent a distress signal last night, and then the Presbyterian Church assigned a support team, which he was responsible for leading.
He did not delay and rushed over immediately after receiving the task.
According to the request for help, the other party said that they were struggling to hold on with the help of a formation, but now there were no human figures or monsters. Could it be that they had been eaten by the monster and the monster had left
After thinking about it, Chen Lin took out a few foundation-building puppets and entered the city together with the crow puppet. They explored the city in all directions and carefully, not even leaving out any corners or intact buildings.
In the end, nothing was found.
"Captain, what should we do?"
The deputy captain of the team was a middle-aged female cultivator named Tan Lingyu, who was at the early stage of the Golden Core realm and had only been successfully promoted a year ago. Therefore, she always followed Chen Lin's lead and never raised any opinions.
Chen Lin thought for a moment, took out a communication talisman, activated it, described the situation here, and sent it back to the base camp.
It’s none of their business if they can’t find the person, but I guess their superiors won’t let them go back just like that. They will most likely assign them other tasks.
However, after receiving the message from the base camp, Chen Lin was shocked.
The other party actually said that the team that had just asked for help had sent another distress message, saying that they were about to collapse and urgently needed support.
And the address is correct, it’s in Crystal Fairy City!
Chen Lin stood up and looked at the abandoned city in front of him from afar again, frowning.
The base camp would definitely not lie, so there are only two possibilities. One is that the team asking for help made a mistake and thought they were in the Crystal Fairy City, but were actually somewhere else. However, the possibility of this is very low.
There are only so many immortal cities in the northern world of immortal cultivation, and the leader of the rescue team is an early Jindan cultivator. It is impossible for him to get such a simple thing wrong.
In that case, there is only one possibility left.
There is something wrong with this place!
Thinking of this, he withdrew his gaze from the city, glanced at the team members behind him, and suddenly pointed at a late-stage foundation-building cultivator with a hairy beard, and said, "Huang Yuan, it's time for you to make a contribution. Take my puppet and go explore the city!"
"yes!"
Lian Mao Hu Zi had a fierce look on his face, but he was very respectful to Chen Lin. He immediately agreed when he heard what he said, took the crow puppet, and went straight to the city.
Chen Lin showed satisfaction when he saw this.
This guy is a criminal who is making up for his crime with meritorious service. Some time ago, he killed three monks in a row in the city because of hatred. If it had happened in the past, he would have been executed on the spot for such a crime. However, now there is an urgent need for manpower and the other side is very strong, so he was allowed to be incorporated into the combat team to make up for his crime with meritorious service.
Originally he thought he would be a troublemaker, but unexpectedly, after he took over the team, he seemed very honest and did whatever he was told to do.
When the other party entered the city, Chen Lin observed them through the puppet's vision.
Although he had just used the Foundation Establishment Puppet to investigate, the puppet was, after all, a tool without flesh and blood. Some monsters or formations only reacted to flesh and blood, and the puppet's observation ability was also limited, so he had to send a cultivator to explore again.
The area of Crystal City is not small, and each exploration takes a lot of time. They left the city in the morning and it is now evening.
However, after the crow puppet was upgraded, its night vision ability became stronger, which did not affect surveillance.
Lu Yuan did not behave abnormally and followed orders completely, checking street after street. Every time he checked a place, he would have a crow puppet follow him and never let it out of his sight.
This is a man who knows his limits.
Time passed little by little and the sky gradually darkened.
Lu Yuan's exploration was coming to an end, but there were no new discoveries.
Chen Lin could only order the other party to return and prepare to take the team back to the city. If the superiors did not believe him, he should ask them to send other people over.
However, at this moment, he felt a darkness in front of his eyes and suddenly lost the vision of the crow puppet!
He was startled and looked hurriedly in the direction of the city, but it was too far away and the sky had already turned completely dark, so he could only see an outline.
Suddenly, Chen Lin felt some strange rhythm coming upon him, causing the silver light particles in his soul to fluctuate at the same time, and then the rhythm disappeared.
While he was wondering and uncertain, the deputy captain beside him, Tan Lingyu, suddenly spoke with a disdainful tone.
"Captain Chen, you are too timid. Since you came here, you have been hiding and not moving. You either use puppets or let the team members go to explore. What's so scary about this abandoned city? If I were the leader, I would have rushed in long ago!"
Chen Lin was stunned. The other party had been keeping a low profile and didn't say anything, so why did his personality suddenly change
He looked at the other party warily, was stunned for a moment, then slowly stepped back and held the basalt shield in his hand.
At this moment, Tan Lingyu was squinting her eyes, twisting her mouth in a sneering expression, and looking very dissatisfied and indignant. This was exactly the image she had when she was controlled by the monster in Kaiyuan City!
Then, he glanced at the other team members, and they all had the same squinting eyes and sneering smiles, and no one seemed to be convinced.
Chen Lin was horrified.
Unexpectedly, everyone fell into the trap without knowing it. You have to know that his team members are all foundation-building cultivators, and Tan Lingyu is even in the golden elixir stage!
The monster in Kaiyuan City could only control Qi-cultivating cultivators, and could cut off the red line for foundation-building cultivators. But this guy can even control Jindan cultivators, and is many times more powerful.
Even he would have been hit if it weren't for the automatic defense of the silver light particles in his soul.
Seeing that his men were merely expressing their dissatisfaction with him and had no intention of attacking for the time being, Chen Lin took precautions while observing his surroundings.
But no abnormalities were found, nor was it found out what was controlling them.
Suddenly, his expression changed and he took out a small bottle from his storage bag.
He opened the bottle and quickly dripped a drop of the liquid into each eye.
This is Ming and Qing spiritual water, but it is not the bottle given by Yu Yuehai. The one given by the other party had been used up long ago. He made it himself according to the recipe in the Qiyun Alchemy Manual.
But I never used it after I refined it, and I suddenly remembered it at this time.
When the Ming and Qing spiritual water dripped into his eyes, Chen Lin looked around again and a look of shock suddenly appeared on his face.
The sky above the entire city was shrouded in a huge, hazy shadow. Countless familiar red lines fell from the shadow and fell into the city like red rain. Only dozens of them reached their side and were pulled over the heads of Tan Lingyu and others.
Moreover, these red lines are thick and big, far from the thin lines in Kaiyuan City.
From this we can see that although it is the same kind of monster, this one is much stronger than the one in Kaiyuan City. It is also possible that it is that one, but its level has increased over the years.
While Chen Lin was wondering and uncertain, the huge shadow in the sky seemed to move, and then a red line thicker than a thumb instantly appeared above his head and penetrated into his body without giving him any chance to react.
His body stiffened, and an evil aura emanated from his whole body. He couldn't help but sneer with his eyes squinting.
But immediately the silver light particles in the soul began to vibrate, and the body was like a boiling pot, and the two forces began to clash.
Fortunately, Chen Lin has refined some soul-refining pills in the past few months. The number of silver light particles in his soul has increased, and he finally dispelled the evil aura, and the light of the red line slowly went out.
Chen Lin didn't dare to stay where he was. He took out the golden axe and used all his strength to sweep across the red lines above the heads of the team members.
Regardless of whether he succeeded in cutting it off or not, he shouted, "The situation has changed. Retreat to the top of Qingguang Mountain and gather!" Then he activated the Thunder Escape Technique and disappeared on the spot.
After he escaped a long distance and saw that the monster did not release the red line to him again, he breathed a sigh of relief.
But he did not dare to be careless and continued to use his escape technique until he arrived at the place he mentioned, the top of Qingguang Mountain.
This place is far enough away from the Crystal Fairy City. Unless the monster leaves the top of the Crystal Fairy City, it will not be able to attack. Chen Lin landed on the top of the mountain and dropped two more drops of Mingqing Spirit Water. He observed vigilantly and waited anxiously.
I don’t know if the fake spiritual treasure can cut the red line of those team members. If he can’t, he will have a hard time reporting back.
It is normal to have deaths and injuries during a mission, but it is unacceptable that all team members died and only the captain returned unscathed. Punishment is inevitable.
So he decided that if everyone was dead, he would not return to the city for the time being. He would find a hidden place to hide for a while and then go back when the Silver Fairy came back.
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw rays of light approaching from afar, and then the figures of Tan Lingyu and several cultivators in the late foundation building stage appeared first and landed on the top of the mountain.
"Captain, what's going on? What happened?"
Qin Lingyu looked confused, as if she had no memory of what had just happened.
Chen Lin grinned. This woman was really good at disguising herself. He had thought that she was a weak woman without her own opinion. She obeyed his orders all the way and looked honest and obedient. He had never expected that she was so hypocritical.
Although people who are led by the red line speak harshly, they are speaking from the heart.
"Nothing, I'll tell you later."
There was no expression on his face. He responded to the other party and then looked back.
After a while, several more team members appeared.
But that was all, no one else came.
Chen Lin took count and found that there were only about twenty people, which was more than half the number!
His face suddenly turned ugly.
He did nothing but observed outside the city, and yet he lost so many team members. This was only because his mutated soul resisted the invasion of the red line, otherwise the entire army would have been wiped out.
The monster was too powerful, and it was unrealistic to rescue it again, so they had to return empty-handed this time.
After thinking about it, Chen Lin took out another communication talisman, explained the situation, and then waited for instructions from the command center.