As Wei Huan spoke, a truly horrifying scene unfolded.
Each half-meter-long facehugger is reduced to a skeleton, either crawling out of the sewers, falling from the ceiling, or revealing its gaping maw covered in sharp teeth in the shadows behind it.
Before any new orders arrived, most of the intelligence personnel stationed in various locations first performed a cheek-to-cheek ritual with Wei Huan's spirit.
Unbeknownst to them, Wei Huan had already deployed his entire army of the undead, centered around himself.
This is a habit I developed over a month of random challenges.
Only being surrounded by the dead would give him a sense of security.
"Eagle, eagle, the mountain nest commands you to follow the white worm. Repeat, the mountain nest commands you to follow the white worm."
Inside an ordinary black car driving on the road, a familiar code sounded in the earpiece, but the two people in the car were confused for a moment.
"Captain Wang, what white worm?" the co-pilot asked in confusion.
"Yeah, what white worm?" Captain Wang, who was driving, also looked confused.
Captain Wang is Liu Xiaotian's captain and has also met Wei Huan a few times.
He was outside at that moment, responsible for tracking the target leaving the building from the first floor. He was driving behind them and had already driven half a mile.
There were only him and another team member in the car. Just as they were talking, with a "rip", the back of the seat behind him was completely torn apart.
A facehugger, like a monster from a horror movie, crawled out from the back of the car after tearing open the seat back.
baring its teeth and brandishing its claws.
"squeak--"
Captain Wang slammed on the brakes and stopped on the road. He turned around and stared at the six eyes burning with green flames on the facehugger's carapace.
He then rubbed his forehead and murmured two words: "Wei Huan".
This person had seen the facehugger, but most special forces personnel had only seen Wei Huan's abilities in pictures.
It was completely impossible to associate this grotesque creature, which was practically shoved into their noses, with their own people.
Therefore, when Wei Huan saw his facehuggers again, he found that most of them had been beaten up.
It's common for animals to be missing arms or legs. There was one that only had three legs left, and it pitifully carried the person who was beating it, limping over.
The main problem was that the notification came "both late and timely," so the facehugger got beaten up for nothing and wasn't even killed yet.
Without any of them returning to the Great Tomb, Wei Huan was completely unaware that his facehuggers had suffered such unfair treatment.
The iron fist of special forces personnel is no ordinary weapon.
These convicts of the Northeast Army of the Great Xia, their faces filled with remorse, were sprinting through the city's dark alleys on facehuggers. Like a poisoned net in the night, they were tightly gripping the three people who had left in the sky on their flying vehicles, heading west towards the city.
This is in the exact opposite direction from where Wei Huan landed.
To the west of Mulberry Country, across an ocean, lies the eastern coast of Osam.
Therefore, the Osham Army has always been stationed in this harbor.
At this moment, the three of them were about to fly straight towards Osam's base.
After learning of the three men's whereabouts, Mu Dehao
He became unusually serious and asserted, "This is a trap."
Yes, that's too high-profile.
The Northeast Army of the Great Xia Dynasty was not particularly secretive about recovering the stolen supplies; those who needed to know already knew that the Northeast Army's special operations team had already arrived in Sangshu Country.
The fact that the investigated party was flying so brazenly in the sky with such a clear objective clearly indicates that this was an open conspiracy targeting the Da Xia Special Forces.
To fight or not to fight?
If we don't fight, the equipment you've been tracking might be taken away right under your noses.
To fight would be a breach of contract!
The Mulberry Tree Kingdom and the Great Xia have always maintained a friendly and cooperative relationship. For the Great Xia army to take action on another country's territory is a major diplomatic event.
Moreover, on this land, a mere few special forces members think they can run rampant and get away with anything?
Captain Wang's voice rang out, sounding very urgent: "Should we make a move? If we don't, they'll be getting close to Osham's base. We have to stop them before that happens."
"Let's do it!"
Commander Mu appears refined and kind, but when it comes to taking action, he is ruthless and decisive.
Since this is a trap, we should act quickly. Are we going to wait until they enter the base and then trade the equipment right under their noses?
However, Commander Mu added, "Don't let those with obvious features make a move."
Captain Wang said, "Yes, sir! All departments, prepare for action!"
...
Wei Huan set off late.
He wasn't initially assigned any combat missions. The reason he left the hideout was because the destination of the target he was tracking was beyond his summoning range, and he had to follow it.
By the time he and Xu Qingqiang arrived at their destination, riding on the dog, the battle had already begun.
No one expected that one of the three people who came out to "fish" was actually a fifth-level gambler.
The opponent concealed their strength all along, only revealing it during the battle, and wiped out the six fourth-tier soldier kings who had flown into the sky with a single strike.
The six elite soldiers fell like butterflies with broken wings, along with the shattered aircraft. This scene pierced Wei Huan's eyes like a needle as he arrived.
"It's a stacked explosion!"
"Fifth-order stacked explosion!"
The alarmed shouts of the undercover agents came through the earpiece.
Then, four more aircraft took to the sky, and the explosive figure flashed again, instantly cutting down two more people.
"Come back!" Captain Wang's voice rang out. "The enemy's critical hit rate is too high. Don't throw your lives away."
However, he, as a fifth-tier Martial King, was unable to make a move due to reasons that prevented him from revealing his identity.
After the Xia Dynasty's squad retreated, the three people in the sky didn't think about escaping; instead, they all laughed wildly.
They calmly watched the special forces personnel hidden on the ground, making humiliating gestures and beckoning with their fingers for the Great Xia people to come again.
Captain Wang gritted his teeth: "Commander, Wang Ming requests to join the battle!"
In addition, two voices, one male and one female, came through the walkie-talkie.
"Commander, Ding Quankun requests permission to join the battle!"
"Commander, Tian Sinong requests to join the battle!"
Although Wei Huan did not recognize the two men, there was no doubt that Great Xia was not short of capable people. It was likely that these two men, like Captain Wang, had already risen to the fifth rank.
but
A brief silence followed them on the channel.
Immediately afterwards, Commander Mu's voice rang out: "Is there no one else?"
"And me." Unexpectedly, the voice was right beside him. Wei Huan turned to look at Xu Qingqiang in surprise and heard him say, "Xu Qingqiang from Wei Huan's team is volunteering. I am Berserker. Even my mother wouldn't recognize me after I transform."
Wei Huan thought about it and realized it made sense.
Moreover, Xu Qingqiang's combat strength is really no worse than that of a fifth-tier soldier. Give him a powerful support from the Shura Empire, and he can withstand the damage and destroy a fifth-tier arrow tower.
At this point, if he focuses on the one who explodes, and someone else is arranged to take action, then Captain Wang and the others from Great Xia can be exposed without revealing their identities.
Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, he heard a familiar voice in his ear, saying, "Mu Zhong also volunteered. I'm a new profession, so they won't recognize me."
Upon hearing this, Wei Huan's eyes narrowed instantly, and he looked around.
Xu Qingqiang, standing beside him, asked in confusion, "Why is Mu Zhong here too? When did he arrive?"
Immediately afterward, Wei Huan realized something and looked sharply to the east.
Then, from the east, a magnificent and beautiful white mech flew by.
It's hard to describe how Wei Huan felt when he saw this mecha.
He was absolutely certain that the person inside was Mu Zhong, who had arrived at the last moment, piloting his mecha, and suddenly appeared before his eyes.
It suddenly made his heart flutter.
"Alright." Commander Mu's voice rang in my ears, followed by his order, "Let's move out."
"Hehehe!" Xu Qing transformed into a demon and shot into the air first.
Behind him, a streak of light flashed past Wei Huan's eyes; it was bullets fired from the mecha's arm.
The mecha was as agile as a living person, leaping and turning in mid-air, perfectly covering Xu Qingqiang's powerful attack.
"Put-put-put!"
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
The continuous gunfire transformed into fireworks in the night sky, bursting forth with dazzling brilliance.
There were also special forces soldiers taking off again from the ground, and even some ranged classes shooting beams of light in the darkness.
Amidst this intense attack, the three men who had been incredibly arrogant just a moment ago suddenly became like rats with their heads smashed, fleeing for their lives towards the Osam base.
They want to leave now, but how can anyone let them?
Xu Qingqiang successfully jumped onto the back of the man who had been lying on top of him and began to scratch him mercilessly.
Stacked explosions can teleport, making them difficult to control.
But in the darkness, a flock of ghostly crows suddenly appeared and flew over the heads of the three men.
Soul Scream, hard CC!
The fleeing figure stopped, and was surrounded and attacked again.
A group of soldiers suddenly flew out from the Osama military base, a mile away, shouting from afar, "Stop!"
Stop my ass!
It would have been better if they hadn't shouted; once they did, everyone attacked even more brutally.
Xu Qingqiang went mad and bit into the head of the man who had exploded. With a "plop," the man who was alive just a second ago became a ripe watermelon falling to the ground.
Two flame tubes were mounted on the shoulders of the white mech, one on each side. With a sharp "whoosh," they flew together over the target and headed straight for Osam's men.
Amidst a chorus of curses from the other side, but faced with the threat of missiles, they disregarded the three "bait" being besieged and rushed to defend themselves.
Several attacks landed on the warhead of the miniature missile.
They were all soldiers, and they knew very well that if a missile of this level exploded, anyone below level four would be injured. Humanity has not evolved to the point where it can completely ignore missiles.
But the next second, the attack collided with the warhead, and suddenly one or two dazzling fireworks exploded in the sky.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
The colors were vibrant and breathtaking, illuminating a vast expanse of the sky.
After the fireworks faded, Osama's soldiers looked ahead again.
The bait from Shi Heng's group is gone, and the small team from Da Xia has also disappeared. The view ahead is empty.
Needless to say, not a single trace was left on the ground.
"Damn it!" The captain of the soldiers who had been ordered to come cursed, his face extremely ugly.
He failed to meet the person, so his mission was a failure.
"Go find it!" he ordered, and quickly threw himself into the new task.
Unfortunately, just as he had imagined, the entire Da Xia Special Forces team did indeed retreat.
As the team members gathered together, reporting their mission with a sense of dejection, someone said in bewilderment, "Was it a mech that stopped us? And was the one that attacked the stacked bomb a Berserker from the Criminal sequence? Are we sure the other side is a special operations team from Great Xia? Why would there be a Criminal sequence in service? And..." The person recalled, "That mech's agility and combat capabilities seem to be superior to that mech squad from Tula. Has Great Xia's research into challenge technology reached this level?"
Finally, he confirmed, "I don't think it's the group from Great Xia."
...
When Xu Qingqiang dragged the wrecked corpse back to Wei Huan's side, Wei Huan's attention was not initially on him.
At the same time, Mu Zhong's mech was flying above him and beckoned to him with his finger.
Unable to resist the allure of the mecha, Wei Huan was practically smitten.
No man can resist the steel aesthetics of mecha, especially when his lover is at the core of that mecha.
During the evacuation, Wei Huan focused most of his attention on the mechs flying low in front of him.
When Wei Huan came to his senses, he realized that Xu Qingqiang, his face blackened, was carrying a corpse and following behind him.
The corpse had half its head bitten off.
Xu Qingqiang kept wiping his mouth; for the first time, he, who could eat shit and still find it delicious, showed such a genuine expression of disgust.
Yes.
Xu Qingqiang killed many "people" in the Challenge World.
But this is probably the first person he killed on his blue planet, a living, breathing person who will not disappear even after death.
...
The destination for the retreat was the east coast.
Crossing the entire island from the west coast used to take four hours by car, but now it only takes one hour.
During this process, Wei Huan could clearly feel that the number of people fleeing the group was decreasing.
They weren't being chased; they left on their own initiative and found a place to hide.
Only Wei Huan and his two companions, along with Captain Wang who led the way and Liu Xiaotian and others, walked with them.
One direction.
At first they were still using aircraft, but later they also stepped on the shells of facehuggers.
Moving close to the ground is much more concealed, and facehuggers are faster than aircraft.
An hour later, they arrived at a mountain near a fishing village on the west coast. Wei Huan thought they would have to camp out in the open, but after going around a forest, they found a hot spring inn.
Unlike the vast and resource-rich Great Xia, the Mulberry Tree Kingdom has a large population concentrated on this island. Although they know that the countryside far from the city is dangerous, many people still choose to stay in their old houses for the sake of survival.
Even hot spring inns deep in the mountains are operating as usual.
After spotting the bathhouse in the distance, Captain Wang stopped and said, "Let's walk there."
Wei Huan nodded, put away the facehugger, and after stepping on the ground, turned to look at Mu Zhong behind him.
Mu Zhong had already emerged from the mecha, which he had retracted into the pilot's private space. Now, sitting in his wheelchair, he was facing him with a gentle smile, just like when they first met.
Instead of making a prosthetic leg for himself, he first completed a mecha that was supposed to be more difficult to build.
It can only be said that men prioritize things differently, and Wei Huan can understand him.
When you're right in front of me, one glance is worth a thousand words.
"Is everything alright???'Come and see the latest chapter/complete chapter'()"
"Um."
The brief conversation calmed my restless heart.
Then, along with Xu Qingqiang and Liu Xiaotian, the group of five emerged from the forest path.
We arrived at this hot spring house, which has the characteristics of the Mulberry Country.
Before they could knock, a woman with her hair in a bun came out of the door. Her gaze swept over the five of them, then she glanced behind them and smiled as she let them into the house.
Walking through the gate, you enter a secluded and quiet courtyard, and further in, there are rows of houses.
Outside the house, you can see a pool of water emitting white steam, which must be the hot spring.
They walked around two houses without entering until they reached the depths of the bathhouse, where the middle-aged woman knelt down and opened the sliding door.
Sitting inside was Commander Mu.
"Thanks for your hard work."
Although he knew this place must be a safe stronghold, Wei Huan was still a little surprised that Commander Mu would appear here.
Mu Zhong then asked directly, "Was this acquired later, or has it always been ours?"
Commander Mu said, "It always has." As he answered, he looked his son up and down, his eyes showing satisfaction. Then he said seriously, "Does that mech have an extremely advanced AI system? It has hacked into our communications."
Only after asking this did Wei Huan realize that Mu Zhong's voice was coming through the earphones because he had connected without permission.
So, when we talk about advanced AI...
"Yes, it's an intelligent system with even higher permissions than the most advanced AI currently available in the Challenge World," Mu Zhong explained in detail. "The pilot sequence has a very high level of technology, and the Iron Heart, which we obtained first, is an artificial intelligence. I estimate that its permissions are only lower than those of the main system in the Challenge World."
The question of whether the challenge world is the remnant of some advanced civilization or a testing ground for the gods has been speculated upon.
Despite numerous disputes
There is still no evidence to support this claim, but it is a fact that the world operates with a "system-like" logic.
Mu Zhong's words are of great significance.
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An AI with permissions second only to the main system means it not only surpasses the technology of Earth, but may even have the potential to change the rules on a small scale in challenging worlds.
This is definitely great news!
"The emergence of every professional training ground has a tremendous driving force on human evolution," Commander Mu said with emotion.
Mu nodded: "The steel factory's mechs can be mass-produced, and the pilot sequence is about to take off."
"Can't other sequences be used?"
"Special mechs are possible, but that will have to wait until my level is higher."
"The mech you piloted?"
"No, the mecha I pilot is custom-made for Steelheart, with the potential to grow, and its performance in all aspects is superior to that of ordinary mechas."
"Let it out and let us see," Xu Qingqiang couldn't help but say, he had been incredibly curious ever since.
Mu nodded, but still said, "No rush, you can look at it all later, you can even sit inside. Now let's talk about this operation."
One sentence brought the topic back on track, and everyone realized their mistake and felt a little ashamed.
Even Commander Mu coughed awkwardly, "Yes, business is more important."
Soon, the corpse that Wei Huan had stored in the kobold's personal space was released by him.
After a while, all the blood and brain fluid had been drained, so it didn't look as bloody. However, when it was taken out, it still had a nauseating smell.
Inevitably, after seeing that mutilated head, everyone would subconsciously glance at Xu Qingqiang.
Xu Qingqiang kept a straight face and didn't say anything.
"Eating people" was a bottom line he could never cross; he had already vomited on the way here.
Now, seeing this guy makes him want to vomit again.
His Adam's apple bobbed, and after enduring it for a few seconds, he couldn't take it anymore and turned to rush out.
Everyone's eyes followed him as he left, their gazes showing no disgust or wariness, only a hint of sympathy.
The [Criminal] sequence is indeed a real headache; when bad guys awaken, they become even more powerful, while good guys suffer.
Losing their minds and going mad, they even kill their own people. They are like a bottomless pit, never satisfied. Only a vicious and ruthless demon could do such things.
Therefore, many "criminals" who want to integrate into the group, or at least make themselves look like human beings, live in constant pain.
Xu Qingqiang was actually quite good. Although he wasn't a good person and didn't care about the consequences of his actions, he had principles and was genuinely kind to those around him. Coupled with Wei Huan and Mu Zhong's trust in him, the Northeast Army could be said to have recruited a [criminal] for the first time ever.
Even for such a confidential activity, he decided to let him come.
This clearly demonstrates Commander Mu's indulgence and trust in Wei Huan.
"Criminal work is a severely underrated profession."
Captain Wang approached the corpse and examined it closely. A fifth-tier stacking explosion had died just like that. Even though all gambler sequences are fragile, there is still a significant difference in attribute panels between a fifth-tier and a fourth-tier.
"The damage from stacked bursts is very high; I'm not even sure if he can withstand that level of damage when it reaches its peak."
Damage. Looking at Xu Qingqiang now, however, he doesn't have a single scratch on him.
Finally, Captain Wang said, "The criminal does have a good ability to regenerate health, but Xu Qingqiang's ability to regenerate health is very unusual. He may have some special talent."
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"Doesn't the legion have some equipment that can be used for testing?" Mu Zhong remembered and said.
Captain Wang said, "Those instruments are mostly used to test mainstream professions, but you can try them out when you're done here. It's hard to imagine that a fourth-tier Berserker can kill a fifth-tier Explosive."
Mu Zhong seemed to realize something and smiled, "Cross-level combat is quite common in our team." After saying that, he looked at Wei Huan.
Captain Wang also looked at Wei Huan. Using him as an example would ruin the conversation. Captain Wang suspected he might not even be able to defeat Wei Huan; it hadn't been long since they last met, yet Wei Huan's aura was already stronger.
As they chatted, the body was thoroughly examined. Finally, Captain Wang picked up the man's phone and said with some regret, "He's dead. The apps on his phone won't open either. If there were any supplies on it, we'll probably never get them."
The rule that equipment cannot be looted upon death is a "fig leaf" used by both factions in the Challenge World.
If looting equipment were allowed, the number of people dying at the hands of their own allies would probably be more than those dying in faction wars.
But just as Captain Wang was feeling regretful, Mu Zhong tilted his head as if listening to something, and then raised his hand.
"Let me try."
"Test what?" Captain Wang asked, puzzled, but still handed the phone to Mu Zhong.
Mu Zhong took the phone, but he didn't do anything. He just stared at the phone. After ten seconds, Wei Huan's phone rang.
Wei Huan took out his phone and saw the latest text message from Challenge World.
[Please check your mail after receiving the traded goods]
Wei Huan's pupils contracted, and he looked at Mu Zhong again.
No way!?!