The thick gray-black fog was rolling.
The rumbling sound was blocked by the fog and did not spread too far.
The battle between Chen Lun and the deformed giant wolf lasted for several minutes. After a fierce fight, he finally defeated the troublesome polluted creature.
Kill the polluted creature 'Moonless Shadow'! Gain 30,000 experience points!
He slowly fell back to the ground, his breathing a little rapid.
In a battle with an opponent of this level, Chen Lun, except for not deploying the "Pale Knight" form, used all his other means to barely kill it. Compared with it, Roxanne was slightly inferior.
This was a polluted creature with no intelligence, but it forced Chen Lun to such a degree just by relying on its fighting instinct... This made him more alert. What kind of indescribable horror did the pollution source of the fairyland, such a wonder like the "inverted giant tree", contain
On the ground directly in front of him, there was a disgusting pool of flesh and blood, which was slowly melting into shadow-shaped mud and gradually seeping into the black sand and gravel.
Chen Lun rested for a while, and after the giant wolf's body completely disintegrated and disappeared, he picked up the extraordinary material that it had precipitated. It was a mass of jelly-like black substance of high quality.
He nodded with satisfaction, put away the extraordinary material, and continued to move forward.
After running a little deeper into the plain, Chen Lun's spiritual intuition began to send warnings.
This feeling of déjà vu reminded him of the situation when he broke through the Natural Forest before.
"We are very close. The source of the pollution in the Haze Plain is probably just ahead!"
Chen Lun's eyes narrowed.
Wow!
The thick gray-black fog in front of him suddenly dissipated, and he actually walked out of the fog area and came to an open area.
Sizzle, sizzle…
Then there was a dense and subtle noise coming to my ears.
Chen Lun suppressed his discomfort and looked up.
At the end of the field of vision, there was a distorted and chaotic color, very similar to the horizon of the lakeside cottage. In the distance ahead, there stood a towering black mountain range, and at the top of the mountain range, there was a layer of pale snow...
'wrong!'
Chen Lun shook his head, he felt that there was something wrong with his vision.
The crackling noise was still ringing in his ears, and he felt a little annoyed.
His sanity began to drop rapidly. Chen Lun took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and used his five senses to sense the black mountain range.
This time, a completely different scene appeared!
That "towering mountain" was actually a corpse lying in the endless wasteland!
A huge corpse that resembles a wolf-like creature!
The narrow head drooped, hidden by its forelimbs, and its face could not be seen. Only thick black fog rose from its open mouth and rushed straight to the sky. It also fell like a waterfall, forming a thick fog on the entire gloomy plain...
The black hair on its body stood upright like a deep forest, the raised outline of its back was the ridge of a mountain, and its six crooked legs of varying lengths formed a hillside. There was also a dark cut on its abdomen, which was like a crack in a mountain wall, with a black "spring" flowing out of it, forming a black lake around the corpse!
'It... She is the source of the pollution in the Haze Plains?!'
Chen Lun was extremely shocked by what he saw.
The aura coming from the Corpse Mountain Range was far from being comparable to that of ordinary polluted creatures. It was an extremely high-level existence! He even guessed that it was the corpse of a god!
"No, she may not be the real source of pollution..."
Chen Lun turned his attention to the top of the "mountain". The layer of white snow covering the top of the mountain was not actually a "snow scene", but a thick spider web! Countless silk threads intertwined to form a spider silk area.
The source of the spider silk came from the neck of the corpse, where a huge oval white cocoon was rooted. It was still wriggling, as if there was some unimaginable horror inside.
Sanity points began to deplete rapidly, and huge pollution radiated along the path of Chen Lun's perception.
He couldn't help but shudder all over.
Extraordinary knowledge of conspiracy paths began to emerge.
This was so similar to what happened to him over the Nature Forest that it confirmed his guess.
'Sure enough! Every area in Wonderland represents a path, and at the same time there are spectacular pollution sources!'
But what are that wolf-shaped corpse mountain and spider web cocoon? !
Chen Lun made some guesses based on what he saw and heard. Perhaps, the black wolf was killed by the white cocoon? !
He didn't know, he couldn't see the truth at all, but this was the only result he could understand.
Just at this moment.
In the "black blood lake" in front of the wolf-shaped mountain of corpses, bubbles began to rise, and deformed giant wolves slowly crawled out one after another. They were exactly the same as the polluted creatures that Chen Lun had fought against!
A powerful monster called "Moonless Shadow"!
After they emerged from the lake, they all rushed towards Chen Lun!
'It's like this again... I can't get close to the source of the pollution, and I can't sense it deeply. The warning from my spiritual intuition is extremely strong. It's a terrifying secret that I can't touch!'
Chen Lun used the same trick again, letting the deformed giant wolf run towards him. He stared at the mountain of corpses and white cocoons, allowing the pollution to attack him, and then used the reserved sanity of Maggie's statue to offset it, leaving only endless knowledge!
A dozen seconds passed in a flash.
At the last moment before the giant wolf pounced, Chen Lun chose to leave.
He communicated with the wooden house in his mind and disappeared from the spot in an instant.
Once again returning to the safe save point, Chen Lun's reaction was even more violent this time. He fell to the ground on the spot, rolled over holding his head, and retched continuously.
"Ugh! Ah!"
The dull roar continued for several minutes before slowly calming down.
Chen Lun lay on the ground motionless, his backpack soaked with sweat.
He looked at the ceiling calmly and forced a smile.
Just like last time, he successfully obtained the complete knowledge of the low-sequence and medium-sequence conspiracy pathways!
He already had Sequence 9-Thief and Sequence 8-Locksmith, which were duplicates, but he didn't have Sequence 7-Assassin, Sequence 6-Shadowless, and Sequence 5-Undertaker... Now he had them all at once!
Although the sanity reserve of Maggie's statue was reduced by nearly two thousand points again, Chen Lun thought it was worth it. He felt as if he had discovered the real treasure hidden in the fairyland!
'But in this case, the crisis in Kazt Town seems like an almost impossible task... The corpse mountain and white cocoon are simply not high-level existences that I can approach now.'
Chen Lun sighed secretly.
A few hours later.
Chen Lun returned to the human world, took a tranquilizing potion and a thirst-relieving potion, and then took a rest.
In the early hours of the night, he once again entered wonderland.
This time, he headed straight for the River of Blood area.
The purpose was very clear, to find the polluted wonders there and receive the corresponding knowledge of the flesh and blood path. But this time, the process was not smooth.
He carefully searched along the riverbank at the bottom of the canyon and explored the area around the blood lake several times, but he never found any pollution sources like the "upside-down giant tree" and the "corpse mountain and white cocoon"...
In the end, Chen Lun even suppressed his nausea and used his "spiritual breath" to sink to the bottom of the blood lake... But in the end, apart from a fight with the giant octopus monster, he gained nothing.
The octopus monster's strength was also at the middle-sequence limit level, but Chen Lun didn't want to get too entangled with it, and finally chose to leave, leaving the guy to struggle in the blood lake for a while.
Chen Lun was a little disappointed.
He gave up the Blood Lake for the time being.
As for the Crystal Mountain area, it is not suitable to go there at this stage, so I eventually gave up the idea of continuing to search for polluted wonders.
"When you are stronger, come back and look for it."
He let out a long sigh and left the wonderland.
*
*
*
Gem State.
In a city in the red disaster area.
Polaris, Su Keying, Dongyang Chenxi and others were gathering in an abandoned warehouse.
"It's all over, it's all over... I'm afraid this mission can't be completed! All my efforts during this period have been in vain!"
Goutoujin leaned against a rusty iron pipe and sighed.
The two female players, Tutu and Kucha Nana, glanced at him and complained:
"Can you please stop saying discouraging things? It really dampens morale!"
"I wasn't wrong..."
Goutoujin folded his hands over his elbows and pouted.
The rest of the people remained silent, just looking at the three people in the lead: Polaris, Dongyang and Chenxi.
Their faces didn't look good either, they looked solemn and thoughtful.
"I'm sorry, this time my intelligence work was not in place. I didn't expect the red disaster here to be so severe... I should have chosen another city at that time."
Dongyang said solemnly to the other teammates.
"This is not your fault, Dongyang. It was all thanks to you that we were able to receive the mission to the shelter in the first place... And the other red disaster areas are not necessarily easy. After all, this is a city-level red disaster, which is different from the small towns and villages we fought against before."
Polaris patted the other's shoulder and said something comforting.
"We left Amber City and traveled such a long distance to come here. The initial investment is already a sunk cost. Now is not the time to be discouraged. We are only one step away from victory!"
At this time, Chen Xi interrupted calmly:
"That being said, how should we solve the problem that the leader has assigned to us... If we fail to do so and the 'Supernatural Alliance' fails, the punishment will be severe!"
Everyone's expressions suddenly returned to being gloomy again.
The atmosphere fell silent for a short while.
The rewards for this mission are quite generous, not only the secondary career reward of Imperial Soldier, but also high experience points and some mysterious substances... Most importantly, they can also complete the second ring of the circus' main mission and accumulate contribution points!
They were unwilling to give up, but faced enormous difficulties.
The situation of the entire mission is that the shelter is the leader and team leader, uniting the recruited extraordinary people or extraordinary forces together to go to the red disaster area to fight against the Red Apple Church.
At the beginning, everything was fine and went smoothly, but until today, the "Super Alliance" faced the final difficulty, which was the high-end combat power of the cathedral district.
The task assigned to Polaris and his team by the leader was to lure out the three priests in the church area and kill them one by one. The problem was that they were all only Sequence 9 Transcendents, while the priests were mid-sequences, and the gap between the two was too large.
Even if they relied on their immortal bodies and consumed their resurrection times to fight desperately, they still had to output enough damage... But their attacks might not be able to break the priest's defense, and the circus' ink bottle bomb had limited damage to the middle-sequence extraordinary people.
Everything is at a dead end.
"Even Polaris, the strongest among us, is completely unable to fight the priest... Last time, he used the 'Portrait of Jack', but that kind of prop is hard to come by."
Dongyang shook his head helplessly.
"Why don't we go to the lakeside cabin and check it out. Maybe the circus store has been updated these days."
Su Keying made a weak suggestion from the side.
The others immediately shook their heads and did not hold out any hope.
"Then let's go and have a look. Now we have to seize every opportunity."
Dongyang sighed.