Infinite Sun in the East China Sea

Chapter 297 Hunting in the Dense Forest
"Those guys on the East America team were really killed by their teammates..."

Xiangzi was very puzzled: "If these corpses and the memories in their minds are not fabricated by the veterans of the East America team, then that person named Zhao Zhuikong should only have experienced the third round, right? Does he understand the rules of the Main God Space? Or... does he think he can definitely kill most of our team members and turn the tide?"

After reviewing the information extracted by the nanomedical robot from the nerve cells of the East American team's reincarnators, Xiangzi was a bit bewildered. What kind of reincarnator would kill all their teammates before the main god's protective shield wore off?!
She couldn't understand why Zhao Zhuikong would do that.

“No normal person can understand the thought process of a madman,” Mei said softly. “Just like those three veterans from the East America team thought, that guy named Zhao Zhuikong has gone mad.”

She paused for a moment, then said, "This madman is very strong."

The memories extracted by the nanomedical robot also contained information about other veterans of the East American team.

Aside from Zhao Zhuikong, the strongest member of the East America team is the veteran black man who has unlocked the second-tier gene lock. He is the captain of the East America team and his bloodline is the A-level mutant Quicksilver bloodline. Before strengthening this expensive bloodline, he also exchanged for the Bullet Time skill, which makes him extremely fast when he unleashes his full power.

But this incredibly agile reincarnator didn't even have time to pull the trigger when facing Zhao Zhuikong.

"Zhao Zhuikong is only strong; if that's all he's capable of, killing him wouldn't be difficult," Xiangzi analyzed.

"The Hobbit is the third cycle world this person has experienced; his first was a team battle, in which he killed six members of another team and gained a lot of reward points and side quests; but in the second, he turned the tables and killed nine members of the East American team, gaining very little."

"If this person hadn't returned to the cycle of reincarnation to farm points, the total number of side quests he obtained wouldn't have exceeded two A's; and in the memories of the black man from the East American team, when this madman first entered the Main God Space, the black man was confident he could suppress him in terms of speed. Therefore, after this person's first return and enhancement, his strength underwent a transformation; he can instantly kill the black man from the East American team in close combat. His enhancements should be concentrated on close combat abilities, possibly speed, spatial abilities, or even time-related abilities..."

"Correspondingly, there shouldn't be much improvement in scientific and technological knowledge, mental skills, and ranged magic."

"He didn't even realize that another squad of reincarnators could extract information from the corpses."

Xiangzi concluded: "In general, this person's intelligence gathering ability is very low. If we play hide-and-seek with him, he will not be able to find us. On the contrary, it is only a matter of time before we find him, given that we have more than five intelligence systems. Moreover, once we lock onto him, it will be very difficult for him to break free of the blockade."

"Killing such an enemy is only a matter of time."

Xiangzi paused for a moment, then turned to look at Xu Feng, who had been silent since obtaining information about the East America team. She asked somewhat nervously, "Captain, did I overlook something? The East America team's rating is higher than ours. Do they... does Zhao Zhuikong have some special talent that far surpasses ours?"

Xu Feng shook his head: "Judging from the total number of exchanges, that black man, in addition to his A-level mutant bloodline, also exchanged for skills such as gunfighting, clairvoyance, and bullet time, as well as high-level protective items, extraordinary firearms, special bullets, and storage items. The side quests he spent have exceeded one S-level; the energy cycle, skills, weapons, and armor of the other veteran's Paladin series are also close to two A-level side quests."

"If we include the female mental controller and Zhao Zhuikong, the East American team didn't get much fewer reward points than us."

"Moreover, the East American team's location is extremely advantageous. They can either join forces with the Mirkwood Elf Kingdom or Sauron, or they can attack Smaug nearby to quickly complete their mission. If the East American team were a normal squad, they could have caused us a lot of trouble; unfortunately, they are an abnormal squad."

Xu Feng then said, "I was just thinking about the 'real world'. Zhao Zhuikong was already quite strong before entering the reincarnation world, so is the 'real world' really just an ordinary world?"

"The real world?" Shoko and Mei were taken aback.

"Is there anything you particularly want to do in the real world?" Xu Feng asked.

He didn't intend to go to the so-called 'real world' himself, as it was a complicated place, but after meeting Zhao Zhuikong with the East American team, it became very necessary to explore the truth of that world.

Before Xiangzi and Mei could answer, Xu Feng smiled and shook his head: "Forget it, it's too early to discuss these things now. Let's deal with the last person on the East America team first."

"Zhao Zhuikong should not have left the dark forest yet. Let's send a swarm of reconnaissance drones to search for his location."

When in doubt, use cannon fodder.

Fighting the East China Sea Team's reincarnators head-on? Let's destroy these cannon fodder systems first!
He prepared a total of nine types of cannon fodder for the team battle. In this world, the main god forbids reincarnators from using technological weapons against the natives, but does not forbid them from using them against reincarnators from other teams.

Those tech-savvy cannon fodder will deal with Zhao Zhuikong.

Xu Feng held the Imperial Arms Shangri-La in his hand, pouring a massive amount of true energy into it.

A giant Bagua Tai Chi symbol appeared in mid-air, and a fleet of container-sized drones left the Tun Tun factory, using the pattern to transfer to the Shangri-La marker near the Dark Forest.

During the last team battle, after Xu Feng found the location of another squad, he still had to send cannon fodder to run there himself. If the other squad was strong enough, the robot's marching tracks would likely expose the location of the East China Sea team. After obtaining the Dimensional Array Shangri-La, he can now deploy troops over extremely long distances.

Some powerful individuals skilled in spatial abilities might be able to detect the location of the East Sea Team through teleportation fluctuations, but this method involves deploying troops at a distance far enough from the target. While the enemy may be able to sense the East Sea Team's location, they may not be able to attack from that distance.

Once the large drones arrived at the marked point, they immediately flew into the depths of the dark, dense forest, releasing bat-sized drones along the way.

soon.

Eight million small reconnaissance drones conducted a grid search from different directions through the vast, dark forest, with a particular focus on the areas surrounding the bodies of the East American team. These reconnaissance drones possess multispectral vision capabilities, including infrared, visible light, and ultraviolet light, and also have ultrasonic detection capabilities.

Their combat power is not strong; their main weapons are only two miniature explosive shells, making it difficult to harm a powerhouse like Zhao Zhuikong.

However, once the small drone locks onto the target, the powerful weapons on the large drone will be activated.

Soon after, Xu Feng noticed something unusual: a reconnaissance drone disappeared 230 kilometers southeast of the pile of corpses belonging to the East American team.

Reconnaissance units don't necessarily need to transmit the observed information back to be effective; their unexplained disappearances are also a form of intelligence.

The main body of these small drones is made of a modified version of Wapo alloy, which is very strong and can slowly recover from non-crushing blows, making it difficult for the elves and monsters of the dark forest to make them disappear without a trace.

Upon realizing this situation, Xu Feng immediately mobilized 100,000 drones to form a tight net in that area.

Subsequently, drones began to lose contact.

But this did not prevent drones further away and Xiangzi, who was observing in other ways, from pinpointing the location of the person who made the move.

"It wiped out all the drones within a six-kilometer radius in an instant. That's terrifying speed," Xiangzi exclaimed. "Although I was closely monitoring that area with the True Knowledge Crystal, I only saw a streak of light. Wherever the light passed, the drones were instantly pulverized."

"What's the next step? Should we just use high-powered technological weapons to completely destroy that entire area?"

"No." Xu Feng gently shook his head:
"If I'm not mistaken, he deliberately exposed himself... to be precise, he didn't care about exposing himself, he just wanted to get rid of those drones that might be spying on him."

Xiangzi thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "That's right!"

"Based on the abilities Zhao Zhuikong just demonstrated, he could easily have bypassed our drone search network. But simply dodging the drone search network is meaningless. We use this clumsy method to search only because the environment of the Dark Forest is too complex. He deliberately demonstrated his abilities because he probably thinks the Dark Forest is very suitable for his combat and wants to lure us there."

"The trees in the dark forest are dense, and the layers of leaves completely block out the light, making visibility very low; moreover, each tree is considered a 'native creature of the story world' and will become an invincible 'shield' against technological weapons. He can simply hide behind a tree to block bullets fired by technological weapons."

“A turbo-laser cannon fired from high altitude might not be effective in such a densely populated area, and might not even be able to penetrate the thick foliage.” Xiangzi sighed and asked, “What should we do next? Send out other cannon fodder?”

Xu Feng gazed at the streaks of light on the screen and calmly said, "There's no need for now. We've already locked onto him. Let the drones wear down his stamina first, and we'll talk again once he's destroyed half of the eight million drones."

Searching for targets in the vast, dark forest requires a huge number of drones; even eight million drones are not enough.

But it takes far fewer drones to blockade a target that has already been located.

Time is on our side.

Xu Feng wasn't worried about Zhao Zhuikong emerging from the dark forest; in fact, he hoped he would leave as soon as possible... that was the most suitable area for him to fight.

If he were to emerge from the dark, dense forest, the pressure he would face would be dozens of times greater.

"Destroy half of the drones?" Xiangzi laughed. "If he doesn't have wide-area attack skills, it should be difficult, right?"

Let alone destroying a high-speed drone made of four million watts of Poissonite, even just tearing up four million paper airplanes would require a considerable amount of time and effort.

She seriously doubted whether Zhao Zhuikong could hold out until that point.

“Whether it’s difficult or not is irrelevant to us. If we can’t even handle the weakest cannon fodder, then let them obediently become our reward points! Let’s go to Mount Doom in Mordor first.” Xu Feng said, “The knowledge I got from Sauron can make the ‘Destroyer’ sub-units a little stronger, and they will appear as the second batch of cannon fodder.”

During the process of witnessing the transformation of 'Destroyer', Shoko and Mei realized that Xu Feng was being a bit too modest—the 'Destroyer' sub-body had not become slightly stronger.

Some of Sauron's necromancy is based on the unique environment of this world—the interlayer between reality and the underworld, the same environment the Hobbits entered after donning the One Ring.

In fact, the nine Ringwraiths also reside in that world.

If the Ringwraiths don't wear black clothes, ordinary people can't see them.

Xu Feng also obtained the crafting method for the Ringwraith weapon, the Blade of Mogul.

The term "Mogur" means black magic.

When the Mogul Blade pierces the target's body, it leaves behind special fragments engraved with runes. These fragments slowly enter the target's heart, transforming the target into a ghost.

In Xu Feng's eyes, this weapon was actually a tiny particle engraved with the core runes of necromancy condensed into the shape of a sword. It was very difficult to make such a weapon, requiring an extremely high level of microscopic skill.

He happened to have reached that level.

After Xu Feng created this material, he referenced the Ringwraith creation method provided by Sauron and incorporated these materials into the 'Destroyer' sub-body.

Simply put, the entire transformation process is the 'Destroyer's' offspring becoming a Ringwraith.

After some modifications, the Destroyer Sub-body acquired various abilities such as Netherworld invisibility, Necromantic attacks, and anti-gravity movement.

Three hours later, the first batch of 360 'Destroyer' offspring were completed.

They were moved to the battlefield in the dark forest as soon as they took shape.

the other side.

Zhao Zhuikong's expression grew increasingly grim as he continued to struggle with the drone.

When he first encountered those small drones, he had a bad feeling. After he casually destroyed the annoying drones, the bad feeling became a reality.

Destroy one, and ten will surround it.

Destroy ten and surround a hundred.

……

The drones from the East China Sea team seemed to be free; no matter how many he destroyed, more would always buzz around him.

Moreover, once he stops moving, a dense swarm of missiles will fly over from the sky.

Even though he used some special techniques to conceal his presence and intended to catch his breath, the drones swarmed around him again as soon as he took a breath... Drones weren't the only way they were monitoring him!
"This is never going to end!" Zhao Zhuikong ran quickly.

He didn't know how many drones he had destroyed, but the current situation was as if the enemy could provide an endless supply of drones.

This was definitely not the fight he wanted; it was disgusting.

Just then, he inexplicably sensed a sense of danger; a powerful enemy had appeared nearby!

Zhao Zhuikong was not surprised but rather pleased.

"Are those rotten oranges from the Donghai team finally going to make their move?"

His thoughts had barely formed when he suddenly dodged, and a sword mark several meters long and several meters deep appeared where he had just been standing.

"An invisible enemy?"

Zhao Zhuikong did not see the attacker, but he sensed the enemy's location from the danger he felt. Moreover, his sense of danger told him that the enemy was everywhere, in all directions.

Just as he was pondering this, he had to move again.

A massive amount of feathers fell from the sky, covering an area of ​​several kilometers.

"Another siege?"

Zhao Zhuikong's expression turned cold. "Is the enemy's number this time... just over three hundred?"

He gently crushed the feather fragments that had just brushed against him with his fingers: "It contains the power of a curse, but a curse of this level is not enough to harm me!"

(End of this chapter)