Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 309, Mission 308
After that, the group parted ways.

Because of the differences in wind direction and the use of ritual magic, these unfortunate souls who were swept into the storm ended up in different locations.

As the person with the highest sequence path and some understanding and experience with this kind of changeable weather, Anderson quickly controlled his descent direction and returned to the ground without suffering any misfortune such as broken bones.

Once again concealing himself and entering Black Vortex, Anderson followed his intuition as a schemer, connecting the various pieces of information he had gathered, and looked toward the typhoon's path, which was the center of Black Vortex: Lake Swell.

Taking a deep breath, Anderson seized an opportunity to dive into Lake Swell in the center of town, and entered the underground area of ​​Black Vortex Town amidst the flowing water and surging "whirlpools".

"The impact is getting bigger and bigger."

The closer Anderson got to the heart of the town's problems, the faster his mental energy decreased. This forced him to focus and think about how to minimize wasted time and compress the time as much as possible to get closer to the core of Black Vortex Town.
"After all, if this continues, I won't be able to reach the core area, and I'll be kicked out of the exam room because my mental strength is too low."

Honestly, why did we have to send him to deliver this?
With his palms against the wall, Anderson closed his eyes to feel the hardness and thickness of the soil. He then stepped back slightly and clenched his right fist.

The compressed flames slammed into the wall in front of him with this punch, the flames concentrated on one point and exploded violently. With a perfectly timed impact and a low bang, the unrepaired earthen wall in front of him was instantly blown open, revealing the dark underground tunnel behind it.

Anderson smiled and then set the hair behind him that was about to strangle him on fire.

"That's much faster."

After briefly calculating the rate at which his mental energy was decreasing, the rate at which his hair was growing, and the issue of spiritual energy consumption, Anderson adjusted the degree of flame compression within the most reasonable range. Then, he used the same method to blast open wall after wall, quickly passing through and running towards the core area of ​​the entire town.

This underground passage was like a maze. While smashing through the walls of the passage to move forward, he also managed to spare a moment to glance behind him, where he had been blown apart.

The pitch-black expanse stretched endlessly, even under the light of the flames. It seemed as if the darkness behind him followed closely behind as Anderson ran forward, trying to drag him into it.

Mental stats 50, Mental stats 40, Mental stats 30...

The continuous decline in his mental strength proved that his path forward was correct, but Anderson could not afford to be careless at all.

Even his spiritual intuition and his innate sixth sense as a hunter were telling him that he could not get any closer.

"call……"

Just as Anderson's mental strength was about to drop below twenty, the last wall was finally shattered by the violent passage of flames.

This is the end of the passageway, where the biggest secret of the entire Black Vortex Town, this "Level 3" examination hall, is buried.

Inside the enormous, empty cave, all was quiet and still. The tiny black sphere, seemingly attracting everything in the world, floated silently in the very center of the cave.

Anderson's gaze was immediately drawn to that blackness—no, it wasn't black, but rather a blackness in which all light had been absorbed, making it unable to reflect light.

"That's a really brute-force way to beat the game."

When another unfamiliar voice rang out in the empty underground cavern, Anderson noticed that there was another person standing below the small black sphere, looking in his direction.

Anderson's head exploded with a buzzing sound after just one glance at the young man.

This is not only on a spiritual level, but also on a physical level.

He saw a “person” wearing a monocle, whose body was half human and half a constantly writhing worm.

Upon seeing this person, one frenzied insect after another emerged from his eyes, mouth, and ears. The blood vessels beneath his skin throbbed wildly, as if they were gestating even more insects. In an instant, his contaminated hair transformed into countless transparent and translucent insects, attempting to crawl out of Anderson's body and towards the young man.

Unseen by Anderson, the spiritual threads on his body involuntarily drifted towards the location of the black sphere and towards the direction of the young man.

"Candidate No. 10048 saw something indescribable, and his mental value dropped below 20, falling below the mental value defense line. He is hereby removed from the examination room."

Anderson's body was like a mass of flesh being dragged and stuck together by countless insects. Just by witnessing it, by the first glance, his entire body exploded and shattered, becoming nourishment for countless spirit insects.

A Sequence 5 Extraordinary being died on the spot after merely witnessing Tang's incomplete mythical creature form.

Ah, of course, thanks to the necessary protection provided by Nikolai, this "death" refers to physical death within the examination room; the person was simply removed from the examination hall.

Tang, who hadn't done anything special and had only shown off the bugs, turned his attention to Anderson's exploding body parts.

"What a fragile Sequence 5..."

The exploded body parts did not contain Anderson's Sequence 5 extraordinary characteristics, but there were other things in the body parts.

Watching the tiny, red-glowing things gradually coalescing from the body parts, Tang adjusted his monocle and waved at the light. As if drawn by an invisible force, the red light was caught by Tang and held in his hand.

"Those who come here unaffected by a gatekeeper like me are either special individuals, such as shepherds who brought in some of the flesh and blood of a true creator, or demigods who can use their divinity to withstand my incomplete mythological creature form..."

The greatest danger in "Black Vortex Town" is the "unstable black hole" that was taken from the Super Star Overlord. Through grafting and dismantling, various concepts from this black hole have been grafted onto everything in Black Vortex Town. Even outsiders will be affected by this grafting.

In this instance, obtaining the "Level 1" Ritual Master qualification requires completely resolving the black hole issue; obtaining the "Level 2" Ritual Master qualification requires designing a ritual spell to suppress the black hole's impact on the town; and for "Level 3," simply escaping the town is sufficient.

Unfortunately, the unlucky Anderson Hood ran into Don, who was coming from the Stargate as the true creator, and was instantly killed by his incomplete mythical creature form.

Ugh, what bad luck.

Looking at the miniature red flag-like object within the red light, Tang Tuan Tuan Tuan pressed it into his palm as if by magic, then released it.

The miniature red flag-shaped object disappeared from his palm and was sent back to its original form.

"The sequence '0-01' resides in the stomach of Herabgen, the god of knowledge and wisdom. If we simply utilize the extensibility of Euclidean space, it is currently impossible to delve into the stomach of a sequence 0 without permission."

Moreover, this is a rather provocative act, like trying to rummage into someone's stomach...

"It seems the god of knowledge and wisdom has made his choice." Sending him the access pass is tantamount to agreeing to what he is about to do.

But speaking of "0-01"...

Tang remembered that when he talked to the Pope, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, about this matter, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom seemed to have made a prophecy about it.

There are certain hidden dangers to the Red Priest's path to godhood. There are also many messy things about the uniqueness of this path. In addition, the Primordial Witch is secretly watching from the side. This is why the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom has always sealed and guarded "0-01" instead of using this sealed object for something else.

But according to that vague prophecy made by the god of knowledge and wisdom sometime in the distant past, there should have been someone at this time who was quite suitable to be a red priest or something like that...

Ah, never mind, once the Red Priest appears, we can just treat that prophecy and all that as a joke.

After all, divination is not a panacea, and prophecies are not always accurate.

Maybe it's Medici?
However, speaking of such a person... it seems that Intis's other avatars have indeed seen someone similar to Little K's "destined one"...

Is it related to this?
Tang shook his head, putting aside the messy prophecies he had heard earlier, and happily prepared to see where his beloved little Ke was now.

Anyway, if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. What's the point of him, a mere clone, understanding all this nonsense?
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Having landed in the strong winds, only slightly scraping against the trees and not seriously injured, Fors rubbed his slightly dizzy head and looked around somewhat dazedly, trying to figure out where he was.

Once Fors realized that this was a mountainous area next to Black Vortex Town, with only the outline of Black Vortex Town vaguely visible, his mind cleared up considerably.

"Was that a direct flick of the wrist sent right out of my body?"

She hurriedly touched the special bracelet on her hand, which had twelve links, but after confirming that the condition of "escaping Black Vortex Town" had not been met, she could only sigh helplessly.

I knew this money wouldn't be so easy to get. How could it just be tossed around like that and she just happened to throw it out?
Thinking back on what she had experienced these past few days, if it weren't for Anderson Hood, a Sequence 5 hunter, Fors felt that she would have been finished the first night when she saw those pregnant women at the hospital.

"Now I'm all alone, Fors. There's just one more scene to go before I can try to escape."

After giving herself a pep talk, Fors looked behind her, where Black Vortex Town was located.

This is a dense jungle, but it is similar to the situation in Black Vortex Town. The trees here all grow towards the direction of Black Vortex Town, as if there is an invisible force there that is constantly drawing things from the surrounding area to that direction.

Not only that, although weeds usually grow in the forest, the weeds here have grown into the shape of "whirlpools", dense and seemingly boundless.

The pollution from the "vortex" has clearly made this place equally distorted and bizarre.

Fors felt a chill run down his spine, but he continued along the narrow path that barely existed among the weeds and trees, heading away from Black Vortex Town.

She wants to try to leave this place.

Having successfully recorded four scenes, Fors now has only one left: the road to leave Black Vortex Town.

This is the last question.

Wiping the mud off his face, Fors, his body trembling and exhausted, dragged himself step by step into the depths of the forest in the still torrential rain.

"Fors..."

The strange noises seemed to come from nowhere, but Fors ignored them and continued climbing the mountain, huffing and puffing.

Her belongings were soaked, and Fors couldn't light the candles without matches. Fors could only pray that the rest of the journey would be manageable for her, a Sequence 9 apprentice.

I don't know when, but the rain falling from the sky, which had been pouring down, had lessened considerably.

All around her were twisted trees and ever-growing weeds. Fors belatedly realized that her clothes were dry. She slowly raised her head, and her stomach rumbled at the opportune moment.

Speaking of which, how long has it been since she last ate anything?
Fors absentmindedly touched her stomach, just as she was thinking about eating, something nearby caught her attention.

It was a snail shell with a diameter about half the length of a person.

And something slippery and sticky is crawling out of the snail's shell.

Those were the people Fors had seen before, people who had been affected by the "vortex" and turned into monsters.

Snail Man?
A gurgling sound came from Fors himself.

She slowly looked behind her and saw that, without her noticing, two hungry people had followed her as well.

These two people are not mutated or monsters; they should just be normal NPCs trying to escape Black Vortex Town.

However, like Fors, the prolonged lack of food and rest had pushed their bodies to their limits.

The two, who were starving, saw the giant snail that was completely different from the flowers, plants and trees around them, and couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

"Yes, it's a snail..."

"Meat, it's meat..."

The "snail" seemed to realize something. It suddenly pulled its head out of its shell and shrank back inside. But the two men rushed over at an astonishing speed. One of them followed the direction the snail had curled up and crawled into the snail's shell.

"One bite, give me one bite, Jared. Go start the fire, hehe, quick, we'll be able to eat fresh snail meat soon..."

Fors felt a chill and distanced himself from the two men.
(End of this chapter)