Chapter 789 - The Mission Still Had to Continue!
Chapter 789: The Mission Still Had to Continue!
When all the obstructions were burned to ashes.
Meng Chao finally saw the Tree of Wisdom’s true appearance hidden in the depths of the vines and shrubs.
It turned out that its true form was not a colorful or deformed towering tree.
Instead, it was a huge, fleshy, parasitic herb that was similar to a huge flower.
The petals, which were almost a hundred meters in diameter, were like mushrooms covered in scarlet stripes, emitting a strong smell of corpses.
The Hole in the center of the petals was filled with a sticky liquid that looked like brains. Clusters of glowing, nerve-like mycelium grew in the mucus.
Countless mycelium pierced into the vines in all directions and then connected to the human neural network through the thorns through the tubes inside the vines.
This was how the “king flower” created illusions and dragged humans into endless nightmares.
Sensing Meng Chao’s raging spiritual flames, the surface of the “king flower” hummed, and countless scarlet mosquitoes and flies flew up.
It turned out that the so-called “scarlet stripes” were dense swarms of insects.
They were attracted by the corpse odor of the “king flower.” While licking the juice, they could also help the “king flower” spread the hallucinogenic spores to a wider range.
Meng Chao recalled that when the exploration team was on a mission at the edge of the sinkhole, they had indeed encountered many scarlet mosquitoes and flies flying around.
At that time, no one had paid any attention to them. It was perfectly normal for mosquitoes and flies to hover in the depths of the forest.
Now that he thought about it, it must have been the mosquitoes and flies that had initially paralyzed their nerves.
Only the vines controlled by the king flower could wrap around their hands and feet and drag them into the sinkhole without anyone noticing.
Thinking of this, Meng Chao snorted coldly. The Golden Tooth Blood Soul Saber turned into a torch that burned the sky. The spirit flames that were more than a thousand degrees high burnt all the mosquitoes and flies in the sky into dancing sparks before turning them into piles of coke, the “king flower” fell to the ground with cracking noises.
The “king flower” that had been stripped of the mosquitoes and flies seemed to be shivering and extremely fragile.
Countless roots, stamens, and mycelium grew out of the brain-like juice and interweaved into a small human figure, revealing Jin Qianxi’s face again.
Meng Chao heard its sharp voice. “Don’t kill me. We Can… change the world together!”
“Of course, I will stop the apocalypse, save Dragon City, and change the world.”
Meng Chao enunciated each word clearly and resolutely said, “But my comrade-in-arms will never be a monster like you!”
Before he finished his sentence, five streams of spirit flames that were baring their fangs and brandishing their claws like dragons spurted out from Meng Chao’s back again.
They were like five extremely powerful jet crystal engines that helped him speed up to the maximum.
Meng Chao and the Golden Tooth Blood Soul Saber merged into one, tearing apart the “Jin Qianxi mycelium,” and stabbing the blade deep into the “brain” of the “king flower.”
In an instant, the entire jungle in the sky was screaming at the top of its voice.
Every vine and branch was shivering, every bush and bush was cramping, and every carpet and carpet was retreating quickly. They were crawling back into the holes and crevices in the ground.
The “king flower,” which was dozens of meters in diameter, was burning furiously.
Meng Chao’s saber radiance turned into dozens of dark golden streams of light and darted inside its body. Then, it tore apart the petals and crawled out.
Countless golden flames licked the surface of its flesh, causing it to wither, carbonize, and shatter in just a few seconds.
The “king flower,” which was struggling on the verge of death, released streaks of incomparably sharp mental lightning in an attempt to destroy Meng Chao’s mental defense line.
However, through spirit energy ripples similar to brainwaves, it implanted images deep inside Meng Chao’s brain. No matter how terrifying it was, it could not surpass the apocalypse that Meng Chao had personally experienced.
It had made the same mistake as the Demonic Abyss Eye.
It was to exaggerate the horror of the apocalypse to a reincarnated person who had returned from the apocalypse.
“Give me… Go to hell!”
Meng Chao inputted spirit energy crazily, causing the blade of the Golden Tooth Blood Soul Saber to continuously expand.
The blade was only a few meters long.
However, the saber’s aura, which was enhanced by spirit flames, had expanded to dozens of meters.
The saber aura that was dozens of meters long flashed and cut the scorched king flower in half from the middle!
At this moment, something seemed to scream at the root of the king flower.
Then, it escaped from the root of the king flower at lightning speed and darted toward the depths of the crater.
Lu Siya was quick enough to summon almost a hundred earth thorns on the ground.
However, the thing was similar to the Vortex of the supernatural entity. It was almost transparent and did not fear the sharp thorns at all. Soon, it disappeared without a trace.
The king flower’s life force was completely drained after the thing escaped. It turned into a large black carbon ball that was shattered into pieces by Meng Chao’s Golden Tooth Blood Soul Saber. It fell dozens of meters into the air and shattered on the ground.
Without the blessing of the king flower, the vines that were so full that they could suck the blood, spinal cord, and brain of human beings like the tentacles of a demon withered at a speed visible to the naked eye. With a slight tug, they could be torn apart.
People were breaking out of the illusion one after another.
First, Long Feijun, the Railway Gun, and the other senior experts who were close to the peak of Heaven Realm.
When they found that they were hanging upside down by the vines, they were all stunned for a few seconds.
However, they were all extraordinary figures who had survived hundreds of battles in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. When they saw Meng Chao standing next to the corpse of a giant, bizarre creature with his Golden Tooth Blood Soul Saber and his spiritual flames and killing intent, they quickly realized what was going on.
Damn it! It’s an illusion in an illusion
That was close. If Meng Chao and Lu Siya had not woken up first, everyone would have been trapped there.
They hurriedly tore apart all the withered vines around them.
Then, they went to rescue the exploration team members who had fallen into the illusion a few days ago and were muddle-headed and unable to extricate themselves.
The spirit indices of these people had either plummeted to the bottom or soared to two or three times their limit. They were on the verge of spirit deviation.
Fortunately, Long Feijun and the others had brought a large amount of nerve tranquilizers with them. They had even cooled the temperature of their brain tissues and other organs, allowing them to enter a hibernation state temporarily, thereby delaying the onset of their injuries and the degree of spirit deviation.
After the timely awakening and treatment, the vast majority of the exploration team members were safe and sound.
A very small number of exploration team members who had suffered a mental breakdown were also injected with drugs and properly placed.
The team followed the vines and slid all the way to the bottom of the sinkhole. Only when they stepped on the soft humus did they finally heave a sigh of relief.
Looking up at the charred remains of the king flower and thinking of the Tree of Wisdom in the double illusion, which was hard to distinguish between good and evil, everyone felt a lingering fear.
They felt both gratitude and admiration for Meng Chao and Lu Siya.
Two rows of small golden words jumped out of Meng Chao’s vision.
[Congratulations, Fire Relayer. You have killed the supernatural entity, Tree of Wisdom and awakened the survivors of nineteen exploration teams. Your hard work will greatly reduce the Dragon City civilization’s losses during the full-scale attack on the hidden fog domain. Contribution Points + 19,533]
[Unlock progress of Supernatural Entity’s Mystery+ 9%. Current total progress is 80% . The final truth is about to be revealed. Contribution Points + 16,741]
“So, the thing that created the illusion was not the ultimate mastermind hidden behind the monster civilization. It was just one of the generals under the mainframe—one of the nine supernatural entities.”
Meng Chao was a little disappointed at first.
Thinking about it carefully, he felt a little lucky.
A real monster mastermind was not so easy to deal with.
In his previous life’s memories, it had been Battle God Lei Zongchao who had burned his life to perish together with the monster mastermind.
If he had fallen into the illusion created by the monster mastermind, even his brain would have been sucked dry by the other party.
Speaking of which, the reward for killing the supernatural entity, the Tree of Wisdom was too little, was it not?
A mere 10,000 contribution points was not much more than the contribution points needed to unlock the “Supernatural Entity Mystery” by 9 percentage points.
Meng Chao remembered that the last time he killed the Vortex, he had received more than 600,000 contribution points in one go!
Of course, the purpose of killing the Vortex that time was to prevent the Lair from collapsing completely, thus ensuring a complete victory in the battle in Dragon City’s periphery.
However, killing the Tree of Wisdom this time also effectively ensured the smooth implementation of the overall attack and could save the lives of thousands of soldiers.
More than 10,000 contribution points and more than 600,000 contribution points. Was that not too unfair?
Meng Chao did not think that the Kindling’s calculations would be wrong.
There had to be a reason.
Also, the moment he killed the supernatural entity, the Tree of Wisdom, he seemed to see something escape from the Tree of Wisdom’s root system.
Lu Siya had seen it too, but she had not seen it clearly.
But now was not the time to dwell on such details.
“Let’s go. We still have to complete the mission!” Meng Chao said to Long Feijun and the others, who had gathered around and were about to express their gratitude to him as well as Lu Siya.
“That’s right.”
Long Feijun turned the kindness of saving Meng Chao’s life into the heat of his palm and patted Meng Chao’s shoulder heavily.
After this battle, the most outstanding young officer of the Red Dragon Army and Meng Chao were not only fellow disciples of Battle God Palace but also comrades who had shared life and death together.
Nothing was said between comrades.
The two of them glanced at the surviving members of the exploration team.
Although the supernatural entity, the Tree of Wisdom’s purpose was not to kill them.
However, the mysteriousness of the Hidden Mist Domain and the irreversible damage to the human brain caused by the spiritual attacks still caused the nineteen exploration teams to lose about half of their members.
The blood of the victims could not be wasted.
Since they had risked so much to get here, there was no reason for their efforts to be wasted.
Whether or not there were existences more terrifying than the Tree of Wisdom hidden in the depths of the sinkhole, they had to explore the terrain of the place clearly.
Then, they summoned long-range heavy firepower and blew the monster mastermind into the sky.
Between the messy vines and the wet, soft humus, they retrieved some surveying equipment, thinking tanks, and drones.
Among them were more than ten Bread Crabs and Peregrine Falcons, which were the most advanced models.
The equipment, the tanks, and the drones had been strengthened and upgraded in the Hidden Mist Domain, where the spirit and magnetic interferences were extremely strong. As long as they were not torn into pieces by the monsters, they could maintain the lowest performance.
In fact, although a long time seemed to have passed in the illusion, it had only been a few hours since Meng Chao and the others had fallen into the crater in the real world.