(For the Silver Alliance, the random update cannot be used, and the completion progress is 44/100.)
Before any big event happens, there are always many small signs.
Yan Zizai and Xie Xingzhi had already heard about a certain plan from a friend.
Qin Zong soon found out.
As a member of the Qin family, how to deal with it when conflicts break out with the Qin family is also a test for Qin Zong.
The Yan family, the Xie family, and the Survey Corps are about to face a huge threat.
They are also well aware that if this change really comes, it will probably involve multiple levels, and the battle will last a long time and be particularly brutal.
Qin Zong was currently investigating the corps branch, which was on the second floor of the tower, calculating the probability of winning or losing.
Yan Zizai began to arrange the families and use the traction wheel left by the white fog to send the most important soldiers out of the tower.
Fighting against the evil outside the tower is completely different from fighting against the humans inside the tower.
There are many additional factors that determine victory or defeat when fighting against others in the tower.
What Yan Zizai needs to do is to eliminate these factors as much as possible.
At the same time, the Xie family began to control some more important places.
Several major families have their own actions. Although these actions are covert, someone will always notice them.
So, since some time ago, people on the lower, second, and third floors have all started to feel panicky.
They sensed that something was going to happen in the tower, but they had no idea what it was.
Qin Zong has simulated many battles these days. As the person with the best united front skills, he found that... the chances of winning are almost zero.
The so-called duel is about soldiers versus soldiers, and generals versus generals.
In terms of combat power, whether it is the top combat power or the number of troops, there is a huge gap between the two sides.
Apart from Yan Zizai, there are almost no guardian-level masters on our side.
But on the other side... five rulers, five guardians, this gap cannot be bridged at all.
There have been many rebellions in human history that have been suppressed by rulers with absolute force.
This time is different, this time... it seems like the rulers are provoking disputes for no reason and actively suppressing them.
Therefore, Qin Zong was very sure that this was a fight to the death, and the tower would usher in a new situation after this battle.
But... he couldn't see a chance of winning. Under the current circumstances, he couldn't even retreat on a large scale, because it was still unknown when the five companies would unite and launch an attack.
"If Qingyu and Baiwu...are really dead...there is no chance of winning this battle."
Valley of green jade and white mist.
Qin Zong suddenly realized that these two people were extremely important, whether inside or outside the tower.
If these two can return to the tower, then all the suppression in the name of "change" will have the possibility of becoming real change.
But Qin Zong knew very well that reality was unreasonable. The so-called savior might die ridiculously in the next second.
One went to the sixth floor of the tower, and the other went to the most dangerous area outside the tower. Could they really still be alive
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Outside the tower. Black area, fungal carpet forest.
The biggest difference between the black area and the red area is not the strength of the guardian, but the top monsters that can be born in the distortion, which are no longer restricted by quality and quantity.
Countless huge, highly deformed creatures lurk in the fungus carpet forest, including bugs that look like cockroaches, beetles that are larger than elephants, and anaconda-level "earthworms" that lurk and wriggle in the ground, or fist-sized fleas that keep jumping around, looking for blood to suck...
All kinds of weird and twisted giant insects are densely packed in this area.
Black insect nests were everywhere, the air was filled with the sour smell of various strange liquids, and there was an indelible buzzing sound in the ears, as if it was always there.
The entire fungal carpet was black and moist, like mud.
Every piece of land is home to countless insects.
A slightly shorter person walking here would seem a bit out of place, because this is almost a "place where humans cannot set foot".
No one could imagine that a former swamp 690 miles away from Baichuan City has become a kingdom of insects.
The little human was surrounded by dead insects, purple, green, black, white, and all kinds of juices everywhere.
He is blind and has lost his hearing.
However, by killing a large number of insects, he gained a way of perception that replaced his eyes and hearing, Sequence 600—Xinluo.
An ability that can make the surrounding images and sounds appear directly in the sea of consciousness.
There is always a way out when you reach the mountain. This sentence is very suitable to describe the predicament of this not-so-tall man at this moment, or many predicaments he has faced.
There will always be a small number of good people who will really be rewarded.
Five-nine is probably just a small handful within that small handful.
He was infected with the most deadly negative attributes—the desire for killing, the thirst for blood, and the fact that he would die if he didn't speak.
Of course, there are also many negative attributes that won't kill people instantly, but they also have great restrictions on people...
Slowness, blindness, emotional confusion, cognitive bias, disorientation, evil fanaticism, bleeding, surge in desire, weakened strength, weakened speed, accelerated physical decay... and nearly two hundred other negative attributes.
All these attributes, although troublesome, will not put people in the dilemma of starting the roulette wheel within a few minutes.
The only three most deadly negative attributes were the "life-threatening" attributes that could force Bai Wu to activate the return roulette.
Generally speaking, whenever you encounter this kind of regular attributes, you have no choice but to return to the city.
But the place where Wujiu came to was a fungal insect forest.
On the fungal mat, even with one foot, countless tiny insects would die. It can be said that even if Wujiu does nothing, he can still maintain a killing state.
At the same time, Wujiu was always muttering to himself.
He was counting. Making sure he was always killing, and always talking.
Even though he felt sleepy, Wujiu would just close his eyes and rest, but he would still force himself to recite certain words.
He didn't care about the tiny bugs that could be crushed to death with one foot, but he remembered all the bugs that were more difficult to kill, so difficult that he had to swing his knife himself.
There are 1,425 of them, and Fifty-Nine of them hunt thirty to forty monsters every day on average, making them the largest large-scale hunters in this fungal insect forest!
Half asleep and half awake, relying on a strong will to control his body, even though his body was corroded by various negative attributes, whether serious or not, Wujiu kept asking himself -
Is this really the end? Try again... maybe I can still hold on.
Wujiu asked himself this question again and again during these dozens of days.
after that…
He didn't even ask that question anymore.
Under the strong self-suggestion, Wujiu seemed to have forgotten that he had the option of returning to the city.
I forgot that I still had the return roulette on me.
Only by continuously extending your continuous survival time outside the tower can you improve yourself to the greatest extent.
So in order to become stronger, Wujiu finally changed from "maybe I can still hold on" to "I can still hold on."
His strength, just as Qin Zong said, improved slowly.
But as a fighting genius, Wujiu has become more and more adapted to this place, and his control over his body has become more and more exaggerated.
At the beginning, these insects could still survive for a few rounds, but as Wujiu continued to master their habits, the speed of killing the insects became faster and faster.
The insects killed became stronger and stronger.
The horror of the black area lies in the fact that those creatures that seem so powerful that they should be extremely rare may be everywhere in the black area.
Just like in the Mechanical City, those top mechanical races, if placed in other areas, will be able to stand on their own, and their strength may even be comparable to that of the regional guardians.
But in the black area, they became so dense that they seemed to be just some insignificant creatures.
But for Wujiu, none of it makes sense.
"I need to kill bugs, and you are the bugs. There is no other consideration."
In such a dangerous place, it is undoubtedly dangerous to simplify the problem.
Time and again, the bugs thought that Wujiu was doomed to die, but Wujiu became more and more adapted to this body full of negative states, and more and more adapted to fighting in this extremely weak state.
So he completed the kill again and again.
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The guardian of the fungal blanket is a very famous monster in the black area, the Zerg Queen.
Wujiu knew that as long as he killed the Zerg Queen, he would be able to find the Doomsday Fragment and clear the condition on his body.
However, Wujiu's progress was very slow during these days, and he never reached the deepest part. This was also related to his desire to slowly fight his way in bit by bit.
This place is far away from Baichuan City, but now that the regional restrictions have been lifted, Wujiu basically leaves no one alive along the way.
The same goes for the endless insects. His ultimate goal is not to kill a powerful monster, but to defeat himself in the last second.
As for the huge queen insect growing in the thick shell, in the deepest part of the fungal insect forest - the Zerg Queen, a human-faced beetle that is like a fortress, it also sensed Wujiu's breath early on, but it did not deal with Wujiu.
On the contrary, the Zerg Queen curled up in fear, sealing herself up with her thick and hard shell that could withstand any attack, like a timid queen hiding in a fortress.
It is not five nine that it is avoiding.
Not long ago, as regional restrictions were broken, a creature appeared in the fungal blanket that was equally out of place here.
The appearance of this creature frightened the Zerg Queen.
And this creature... soon encountered Wujiu.
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Acid rain fell, and Wujiu hid under a strange plant to rest.
He gasped violently, and every muscle in his body seemed to be sore and numb.
If it were someone else, the body would most likely force that person into a coma to maintain function.
Wujiu didn't have it. Control over the body seemed like a natural gift. The reduction of vitality and physical strength would cause many abilities to decline as well, and some abilities would even be directly blocked.
But Wujiu always maintained strong fighting power.
He slowly adjusted his breathing, and in an extremely balanced mode, allowed the accompanying force to restore his body.
Suddenly, Wujiu frowned.
A cat appeared in the range of Wujiuxinluo.
When the image of a cat appeared in his mind, Wujiu thought he was going crazy.
But the acid rain fell on the cat's body, causing the hair to be continuously corroded, so that the cat's festering skin was exposed, which looked so real.
Wujiu looked at the cat warily, but he was really tired now. If the target had no killing intention and no hostility, he would not act rashly.
"Why is there a cat in this place?"
In the fungal blanket, cats are as out of place as humans.
“It looks like it’s injured…” Wujiu thought.
With his eyes closed and his face covered in blood, Wujiu, who was sitting motionless under a tree, looked like a corpse. If he hadn't been mumbling something.
The cat knew that Wujiu was still alive. Its perception could cover the entire fungal carpet.
It was very curious. How could there be a human in this place? Were the chopped Zerg corpses on the periphery the work of this human
"He looks like he's injured..." the cat thought.
The hair was corroded, the skin was ulcerating, and the skinny cat looked as if it had undergone inhuman abuse.
But in the end, when it came to Wujiu, Wujiu knew that it still had strong vitality.
"I read in the textbook that animals will eat human bodies after they die. Do you want to eat me?"
The cat looks very embarrassed and weak, but in fact, the acid rain can't hurt it at all. It just wants to make itself appear weak.
This is to gain the sympathy of this human being, or to make this human being careless.
But the human didn't seem to care about that. He even knew that he wanted to eat him
"Well, if I die and am eaten by you, it's better than being eaten by bugs."
Wujiu didn't know what the cat was thinking. He was just venting his feelings.
The cat felt very strange. Did this human see through my disguise
Shouldn't he be very scared then
It seemed pointless to eat him now. How could he be so calm? It would be better to wait until he started to feel fear and despair before eating him.
Suddenly, the cat was a little confused.
Because Wujiu held it... in his arms.
"The bugs are coming, don't be afraid."
The cat suddenly understood. It had actually sensed the insect approaching a long time ago, but was this human protecting me
What an arrogant human being! If I reveal my true form, I will scare you to death!
When this thought came into the cat's mind, it was confused again.
Because this human tore off a piece of cloth from his body and then wrapped it around his body.
The uniforms of the Survey Corps are resistant to high temperatures, low temperatures, and corrosion. Although they are not absolutely isolating, they are still quite effective.
The cat simulated being corrupted in order to gain sympathy from the human, but when it heard the human ask it to eat it, it thought that the human might know something.
But now... it's a little incomprehensible.
Could it be that this human... really thought I was a cat
"Forget it, let's see what he will do." The cat decided to give up thinking.
Wujiu really thought it was a cat. Even though it was extremely balanced and his perception was very strong, he could not sense a creature of this level.
Over the past seven hundred years, this world has not only had Zero... who has touched the realm of Tic-Tac-toe.
It’s just that there is only Zero who has established a force in a high-profile manner.
As for the few other powerful creatures that also crossed that threshold, most of them became mysterious legends.
The Zerg approached again.
Wujiu held the cat in his arms, and despite more than two hundred negative attributes, he swung his sword again.
"He also has that plate on him... It seems that this thing will cause humans to suddenly disappear. Is this your way out?"
The cat noticed that Wujiu seemed to be fighting the Zerg almost sideways in order to protect himself.
Giant mosquitoes, wireworms like iron chains, and countless strange-looking insects that looked like prehistoric creatures were constantly being killed by this human.
The cat stared at the roulette wheel:
"When you try to activate it, I will destroy it, and you will fall into despair."
It began to wait for the man to reach a desperate situation, and then escape.
But as the dying man continued to swing his sword, the Zerg died one by one, and he suddenly realized... the plot did not follow the normal direction.
Is he crazy? Why would he not run away in such a situation? What is driving him
It is impossible to imagine a scenario where humans do not retreat from desperate situations but instead take a step forward.
The cat thought that this person must be stupid.
Ten minutes later, the rain stopped, and the human continued to sit slumped under the big tree, with his eyes closed, and his mouth constantly uttering some meaningless, indistinguishable monosyllabic sounds.
The cat really wanted to turn into a human and ask what he was doing, but ultimately decided not to do so.
Wujiu gently stroked the cat's head with his calloused hands. The cat actually felt quite comfortable and had the urge to close its eyes and enjoy it.
But soon I felt something was wrong, I was going to eat him.
“Fortunately... the Zerg you encountered were not strong and you were not injured.” Wujiu said weakly.
The cat was puzzled. The man was obviously dying... Why didn't he leave? Of course, he didn't know that this man's crazy behavior was just to protect his best friend forever.
There is a kind of person in this world whose pride is not superficial, but when he finds that he is a burden, he will try his best to get back to the top.
It is precisely because Wujiu is such a person that Bai Wu always believes that he can always trust the captain.
The cat naturally didn't understand this. It just stared at the man's face for a long time and found that by human standards, he was still very good-looking, but a little too serious...
Forget it, just observe for a while, he will definitely die next time.
I'll eat him next time, for sure.
(I am a coward for updating twice! Please vote!)