Remove all restrictions and transform into a bizarre girl.

The group started walking towards the mission coordinates.

The road surface gradually transitions from sand to gravel and hard rock layers. As you walk, you can see some dark marks, like the imprints of being repeatedly trampled.

The distribution is not regular, but the further you go, the more obvious the density of those traces becomes.

Chen Nian slowed down and stopped some distance from the hills to observe the terrain ahead.

Among those hills are some dark rocks, some of which are covered with dark sediments. Under the sunlight, they show uneven color differences, as if layers of sediment formed at different times have been stacked together, leaving traces of varying shades.

Su Wanqing squatted down behind her and followed her gaze for a while, but couldn't see anything wrong, so she looked elsewhere.

Chen Nian did not stand up immediately, but continued to squat in place for a while, her gaze moving along the direction that stretched between the rocks.

After a while, she stood up, took a step toward the depression, and walked into the entrance between the hills.

The entrance was narrower than expected, and the rocks on both sides gradually narrowed as you walked, forming a corridor-like structure after about twenty steps.

Finally, something strange was discovered.

"kill!"

Chen Nian's voice was short and clear, spreading through the narrow passage.

As soon as she finished speaking, she took a step forward, drew her Miao sword from its sheath, and the blade drew an icy blue arc of light in the sunlight, slashing directly at the nearest strange creature.

The strange creature had barely poked half its body out of the crevice in the rock when the blade was already at its neck. It encountered almost no resistance as it cut in, as if a thin sheet of paper was being sliced ​​by the sharp edge.

Su Wanqing moved at the same time as Chen Nian made her move, drawing two kukri knives from her slings and slashing to the right.

The blades slashed alternately from both sides, forcing back the two strange creatures that approached from different directions, and knocking them down one by one in the gaps between their retreat.

The battle did not last long.

The strangeness of Sequence 8 posed almost no effective resistance to the team, which consisted entirely of Sequence 7 members. Instead, it was shot down one by one as it tried to get close.

About five or six minutes later, the last monster disintegrated into grayish-white fragments under Su Wanqing's knife, scattered in the crevices between the rocks.

The depression returned to silence, leaving only the grayish-white fragments and the dark blue crystals scattered among the rocks, reflecting scattered points of light in the sunlight.

The outermost layer of eeriness was thus cleared away.

Chen Nian sheathed her sword, walked to the spot where she had previously defeated the first strange creature, bent down to pick up the crystal, weighed it in her hand to confirm its grade, and then put it in her pocket.

The others also picked up crystals from different locations. Su Wanqing picked up the nearest one, wiped off the dust, put it into her spatial storage, and looked up at Chen Nian: "That's it? It's easier than I expected."

"Don't have another episode. This is just the outer area," Xia Luoling said, rolling her eyes at her as her gaze fell on the darkest area in the center of the depression.

There should still be some inside.

After she finished speaking, she walked towards the darkest area, her boots treading on the soft soil, her steps steady and light so as not to make too much noise as she walked.

Chen Nian walked at the front, and soon encountered another wave of strange occurrences.

This wave of strange creatures was more numerous than those on the periphery, and their distribution was more scattered, but their strength still did not exceed the range of Sequence Eight.

Chen Nian did not stop after entering their field of vision. The light of her blade flashed at her side as she cut into their distribution area along an almost straight path, completing the cleanup while moving.

As the fight continued, the boss battle was soon approached.

Before stepping into the area where the BOSS was located, Chen Nian paused and turned to look at the people behind her: "You guys guard the outside and don't let anything else get close. I'll take care of this."

After saying that, she stepped into the ring of rocks in the center of the dark area without waiting for their response.

Su Wanqing opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but Xia Luoling tugged at her hem and shut her up.

Fang Anya didn't speak, but simply adjusted her position, forming a loose perimeter around the circular rock formation with the others, her gaze fixed on Chen Nian's direction.

After Chen Nian entered the ring-shaped lithosphere, the pores on the ground became denser and more regularly arranged, forming a complete textured pattern.

She stood in the center of the texture, quieted down for a moment, gripped the hilt of the knife, and slowly channeled energy into the Miao knife along her arm.

The halo on the blade surface became more stable than usual, maintaining a continuous blue luster in the hand, with a uniform and steady light, without fluctuations or breaks.

She waited for a while.

Then she felt a slight tremor in the ground beneath her feet, and dark air currents surged from the pores, gathering within the ring of rocks and gradually coalescing into a human-shaped outline in front of her.

This must be the BOSS. Its outline is a size larger than the other strange creatures we've encountered before, nearly two meters tall, and the dark patterns on its body are more pronounced, showing a clear vein structure under blue light.

However, his strength is not that great; he is still within the range of the peak of Sequence 7.

Chen Nian didn't wait for it to fully solidify. While the outline was still slowly moving at the edge, he had already drawn his sword. The Miao sword slashed along a smooth arc toward the torso of the outline.

The resistance encountered when the blade cut in was slightly greater than the previous strange ones, as if it had cut into a denser material, but it was still within an acceptable range.

The silhouette did not immediately disintegrate after being struck, but instead took half a step back and then readjusted its posture.

Without pausing, Chen Nian took another step forward as it adjusted its posture, and this time the Miao knife cut in from the side, slicing across its body diagonally from bottom to top.

The two cuts left clear marks on its surface, and the edges of the outline began to become unstable in the sunlight, as if it was losing the support to maintain its shape, and gradually became blurred in the light.

Chen Nian delivered the final blow the instant it lost its balance.

The Miao sword fell from above, cutting into the center of the outline along a vertical trajectory, and then fell to the ground.

The silhouette paused for a moment after being pierced, then began to dissipate outward from the center, turning into dark currents of air that dissipated in all directions, like water vapor blown away by the wind, slowly thinning in the air.

It was too weak; Chen Nian couldn't even feel any pressure.

She sheathed her knife, stood still, and did not immediately check the result.

She closed her eyes and sensed the flow of energy within her body. The energy was circulating smoothly in the circuits, without any significant fluctuations or depletion due to the battle just now, nor any new changes.

He shook his head in immediate disappointment.

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