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Da Da Da~
"Who!?"

The sound of trampling leather boots came from the gray ruins in front of them, which excited the peak team who had been exploring the map!
In this ghost place, even the slightest abnormal sound will make people tense up.

Ten people raised their guns and aimed at the direction of the sound.

Da Da Da~
The sound of leather boots got closer, and Lao Ao's Cerberus jumped in front of the crowd, with a mouthful of flames in its mouth, ready to spew out high-temperature flames at any time, breaking through the dense fog.

The 10 people are surrounded by summoning objects. Although they may not be able to resist the invisible attacks of the ethereal spirits, they will still remind the players if there are ethereal spirits passing through their bodies.

At this time, the maned bear king was taken away by the demon fox, because it was too big, and walking upright would always be attacked by the spirits, and the players were not easy to defend.

The output of the Maned Bear King is half of physical damage + cold damage. Among them, its special skill blizzard can cause a large ice magic storm. If it is released here, it can cause great damage to the ethereal spirits in the area, but the cooling time is very long. It is used as the finale skill, once it is besieged by the Void Spirits, it will summon the Maned Bear King to change the situation of the battle.

At this time, hearing the unusual movement, the demon fox touched the pattern of the bear king on his left arm, ready to call at any time.

"Don't shoot! We're human!"

Out of the gray mist came out 12 soldiers wearing the uniform of the Human Alliance, 10 men and 2 women.

There are many stars on the leader's shoulders. Although the players don't know much about the military rank in the game, they can roughly know that this is a relatively high-ranking officer.

The little dog asked vigilantly: "Where are you troops? Why are you in the wild? This is not a place where humans can stay for a long time."

"We are the garrison of the Spirit Extinguishing Fortress. We went out to hunt the spirits and collect [Red Spirit Powder]. We were attacked by a group of psychedelic ghosts on the way. We walked here only to find that we lost our way."

The players glanced at each other, and they all saw each other's searching expressions.

"Are these real people or ghosts pretending to be?"

"A group of people suddenly appeared in the wild. It's really weird, so be careful."

"I think they have shadows, they should be NPCs, right? Will there be any hidden missions?"

"We don't know them either, but I've seen the map given by the Nangong God Envoy, and there seems to be a stronghold called the Fortress of Destroyer around."

"By the way, what is the [Red Spirit Powder] they are talking about? Is it the thing I just collected?"

Old Ao took out his own bottle, and there was a white powder in it that shone with blue light.

As if hearing what they said, the officer explained: "Oh no. What you hold in your hand is [Green Spirit Powder], the substance left after the death of the lowest level Void Spirit. It will only appear after the death of a super-level ethereal spirit, which is a necessity for making a three-star ghost-slaying weapon."

"You don't seem to know much about our affairs. Are you a new volunteer from the alliance? Which base?"

The players saw each other and discussed with them very clearly, and everyone looked normal. The others were still deliberately guarding against the attack of the Void Spirit, and their suspicions had been lowered.

Xigou said: "Yes, we are volunteers who just came here, in Soul-Suppressing City."

"Hey, we're almost here in Soul Town. It seems we've been misled for a whole day. It's getting dark, and we've exhausted our defenses. We can't spend the night outside. You can take us back to Soul Town to rest. For a while? As a reward, I am willing to give you some crystals."

"By the way, my name is Gao Shouben, and I am the captain of this hunting team, a third-order peak casual cultivator."

The players looked at each other and put down the guns they had been holding up.

"Bored and Wei Kunchen, you two come closer and have a look"

"it is good."

The two are the most fleshy front row in the team, so this dangerous job is naturally entrusted to them.

Gao Shouben smiled: "You have the basic qualities of soldiers on the eastern battlefield, and it is always right to be cautious. After all, pollution incidents are increasing recently."

Hearing this sentence, Yaohu suddenly raised his head and glanced at him, then nodded thoughtfully.

"Sparrow food."

The two players stepped forward, touched and rubbed each other, and nodded towards the team.

"They all have a temperature, their hearts are beating, they are living people."

"I can't feel the cold breath, and I haven't detected other energies. They are all at the level of a third-order evolutionary, so it should be fine."

The player is equipped with a detection robot, which can accurately detect bio-energy below the fourth order.

The fourth-order can only be vaguely detected, and there is still a possibility of being discovered. As for the fifth-order, the Clown King once tried Zhao Hongwu. in the air
I didn't know it before, I thought it was designed by the game mechanism.

It was only later that I realized that it was the passive defense of a fifth-order domain person, and he himself was always in his own domain.

After checking it several times, the players seem to have confirmed the identities of the 12 lost soldiers.

The little dog smiled: "Okay, then come back to Soul Town with us, this road is indeed too dangerous for you."

"Thank you, the Human Alliance is with you!"

At this time, Xigou asked with great interest: "What can the [Red Spirit Powder] you mentioned just now do?"

"The three-star ghost-slaying weapon can restrain all ethereal bodies. In the eastern battlefield, every soldier has his own ghost-slaying weapon, which is very important!"

"Slender ghost-slaying weapon."

10 players returned to Soul Town with 12 lost soldiers, chatting about ghost-slaying weapons on the way.

After Gao Shouben's teaching, the peak team knew a lot of skills on how to fight the Void Spirit.

Among them, ghost-slaying weapons are a general term. Using a special process, the spirit powder naturally generated by the death of the virtual spirit is added to the weapon production process. The final formed weapon will come with a high amount of virtual spirit damage.

The higher the level of the spiritual powder, the stronger the damage-increasing ability.

The lowest level [Green Spirit Powder] can only increase damage by about 20%, the more advanced [Yellow Spirit Powder] can increase damage by 50%, and the more advanced [Red Spirit Powder] can increase damage by 100%.

[Red Spirit Powder] Only Void Spirits above Tier have a chance of dying. Their team came out to hunt Tier Void Spirits.

Players also took note of this information.

"There seems to be a blacksmith's shop in Town of Souls, and the craftsman npcs inside should be able to make ghost-slaying weapons for us, but we probably have to provide high-level spirit powder ourselves. After all, I think Soul Town is mainly about defending the city. , there are very few soldiers who go out to hunt and kill."

Lin Tang spoke out his reasoning.

Lao Bai: "Hey, I went out for a few laps today, and all I met were young people, and all of them were [green spirit powder], I wasted too much time, I guess I won't be able to get [red spirit powder] today, go back Ask the Divine Envoy of Nangong to see where you can get it, and go there early in the morning!"

Yaohu said thoughtfully: "There is a high probability that we can get some [Red Spirit Powder] today."

Lao Bai curled his lips: "Let's forget it, the planner and the npc have been saying that the eastern battlefield is dangerous at night, so let's not take any risks, the base's cloning warehouse has not yet been erected."

They also carried the nanorobots and infrastructure construction drawings given by Cheng Shaofeng. As long as they have the corresponding materials, they can automatically build the base when they are released.

But they didn't expect the eastern battlefield to be so backward!
There is simply not enough steel and plastic in the city, because what we are fighting here is the spirit, and ordinary firearms are completely useless. Even the city wall is just a symbolic low stone wall. The spirit has no substance, so you can It can penetrate in at any time, no matter how high it is, it is useless.

And the inhabitants of the city spend most of the day in prayer, and that is their job.

It would be nice to grow some food crops in the rest of the time, and there is almost no time to use modern industrial science.

They don't use steel materials at all, and naturally they don't have much storage.

The players asked Nangong Shenshi to ask for it, and the storage in the city warehouse, which was not much, would naturally not be used by them.

The peak team can only find a way to get materials and build a starting base.

On the way back to town.

Xigou even took Gao Shouben to chat about skills together, and learned 2 very useful [general skills] from him.

[Weapon Enchanting]: You can add different energy attributes to a weapon according to your own energy attributes, so that the person using this weapon will have additional attribute attacks when attacking.

Players have non-attribute crystal energy flowing in their bodies. After learning, they can add any attribute attack to the weapon, which is very easy to use.

[Plateau Bloodline]: After opening, it can greatly increase its own speed, and is immune to most negative states. Whether it is attacking or escaping, it is a very useful skill, but the cooling time is a bit long. It only lasts for 1 minute once opened, but it needs to be cooled by 1 Hours belong to the bottom-of-the-box skills.

After getting the two skills, Xigou was even happier.

The lost team also smiled happily, as if they were honored to have the friendship of the peak team.

After all, in their view, the strength of the people in the peak team is unpredictable.

After walking for an hour, they almost saw Soul Town City.

Gao Shouben's eyeballs flashed a wisp of blue mist, and the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously.

"Come on, let's go into the city!"

The other 11 team members were also excited.

"Uh, wait a minute, in order to thank you for the knowledge and skills you have taught me. Before entering the city, I have a small gift for you."

Yaohu stopped and said seriously.

Gao Shouben waved his hand: "No, no, I can't get out without you. We are too tired and need to go to the city to rest. Let's go in quickly."

The 12 of them were eager to enter the city at this time.

Yaohu smiled and said: "I think it's better to give you gifts outside the city. I'm afraid that the ground will be dirty when I get to the city."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Gao Shouben turned his head.

What greeted him was Xigou's insect knife.

"Instant Shadow Slash!"

With a flick of the wrist, three green blade lights erupted in an instant, slashing straight at Gao Shouben's body.

Puff puff!
Three extremely deep blood marks appeared on his chest, directly knocking out nearly half of his blood volume!
The three bursts of knives cut off three of his ribs, exposing the internal organs.

A cyan ghost baby showed a surprised look inside.

It opened its mouth, but the voice came from Gao Shouben's mouth, and he said in disbelief:

"How did you find out?"

The little dog touched the blue blood on the worm knife and clicked:
"Tsk tsk, it's really a monster possessed by a ghost!"

"I thought you were human until I shot"

"I have to say, your acting is so realistic! If it wasn't for Yaohu's insight into a detail, I would have been fooled by you."

Gao Shouben turned his attention to Yaohu. In the short 1-hour communication just now, he memorized the information of several players.

At this time, the peak team and their summons had surrounded 12 ethereals pretending to be humans.

Yaohu said unhurriedly: "You seem to be some kind of special spirits that can steal the memories of these soldiers, and even maintain the human behavior, and there is no flaw in the energy. It is really difficult for ordinary people to find."

"Even if we inspect it closely, we can't see the clues, but"

He suddenly laughed.

"But! Aliens are still aliens after all. You have disguised everything, but your true thoughts are still exposed in your subconscious. The logic of your behavior makes you ignore an important point."

The wound on Gao Shouben's stomach is wriggling and healing quickly, and his health is also increasing. He said with a gloomy expression: "What did you ignore?"

Yaohu: "You have never doubted that we are ethereals from the beginning to the end!"

The 12 'lost soldiers' looked dazed, as if they didn't quite understand.

The blue color in Gao Shouben's stomach became thicker and thicker, and the veins on his body were exposed. The face of the ghost baby in his stomach was superimposed on his original face without any concealment, and the two faces were hideous and terrifying.

"You are not ethereal, why should you doubt!"

Just as Yaohu was about to speak, Lin Tang, who had held back for a long time, jumped out.

"Fox! Let me come, please! I'm suffocating!"

Yaohu spread his hands: "You can do whatever you want, in fact, it doesn't matter whether you talk to them or not, just kill the explosive [Red Spirit Powder] directly."

"No! It's very important! Materials can be used at any time, but pretending to be forceful. But this time! I have all recordings turned on, and it is impossible not to finish loading!"

Teammates: "6!"

Boring person: "As expected of our group leader, this awareness is really high!"

Wei Kunchen: "There is an inner taste!"

Lin Tang turned his head and said: "Stand! What is a stand? You are a ghost, and I am a human being. This is our respective stand. You ghosts can't detect it in the dark, but we humans can easily find it in the light."

"From the first moment you saw us, you never doubted that we are ethereals, 12 of us, none of us doubted! Because you can easily recognize us as human beings!"

"And real humans will doubt all creatures in the wild!"

"You guys are wrong because you know too much information! It's been exposed!"

Gao Shouben wandered his mind for a while before realizing what it meant.

He said fiercely: "What if it's just that we are more likely to trust others? How can you be so sure that we are ethereal?"

Lin Tang pointed to his healed wound and said, "Isn't this already telling you the answer?"

The ghost baby was furious, and the other 11 'persons' no longer hid, each showed their original appearance, and their strength increased rapidly, reaching the level of the third-order peak!
"Kill!" (End of this chapter)