Returning from the abyss

Lu Ning knew that the "Death Star" she faced was not the ruler who had been killed.

She had already noticed that she had to ask a question before she heard the response, which meant that it was indeed just an answering machine.

Moreover, she knew Shitong and had some not-so-detailed understanding of those events back then. What the Death Star said may be true, but the suffering of the people at that time cannot be erased. As for the most critical unsolved mystery - the Great Purge, Lu Ning actually knew something about it.

"Sorry, you still can't convince me." Lu Ning smiled, "You are the Death Star, but you are also mixed with the echoes of countless people who pray to you. This may be what you were pursuing at the beginning, but they have become the most extreme Mistake. Even in that era, you had the ability to make people's lives better."

"That may be true, but the times no longer belong to us."

"Keep wandering until time comes to an end. This is the last blessing I can give you, for your great cause; this is also my curse for you, for your sins."

Immediately, Lu Ning left the world where sound and light blended into one, and her eyes fell on Mu Xifei again.

"I have met your Lord, and unfortunately, the answers I seek do not come from Him."

Mu Xifei was stunned for a moment and sighed with regret.

"Similarly, after verification, I will not allow this sect to spread in Chen Geng's land." Lu Ning continued, "Mu Xifei, it is your freedom to believe if you want to, and I will not stop it. I I give you two choices. The first is that I give you a forbidden spell, and you leave from here and never set foot on Chen Geng's land again. The second is that you will die here, and I can even give you a martyr's death. Name."

"Your Excellency, I said that I did not choose this path for some illusory belief." Mu Xifei smiled, "I choose one, and I will not come to this place again."

"Very well, I will give your companions the same choice."

Lu Ning called the guards and took Mu Xifei down to wait for her to deal with it later.

And she was thinking about something the Death Star had just said.

Regarding the "Great Purge", Shi Tong once told her that the tourists at that time were not in a good mental state and their hearts were darker, so they chose such a name, and it became more and more popular in the following years. God is even considered a taboo subject in some places. They all believed that this was a conspiracy by the distribution center to remove and re-cultivate tourists who did not meet their intentions.

"Isn't it?" Lu Ning asked at that time.

"From beginning to end, apart from playing word games in some places, the distribution center does not need to lie to tourists at all." Shi Tong replied.

Even in the current distribution center, if we really want to wipe out all the fifth-level tourists, and then notify the fourth-level tourists to start upgrading again, what ability can the fourth-level tourists have to oppose?

Therefore, the notice from the distribution center should be taken literally. The fifth-level tourists were indeed wiped out in the difficult scene. The problem was simply the difficulty of the scene.

At this point, Shi Tong stopped talking. Lu Ning knew that Shi Tong obviously knew more things. She relied on the visa team to obtain extremely high authority in the distribution center, and she knew most of the secrets belonging to the distribution center.

If she didn't say it, the distribution center probably wouldn't allow it.

Now that there is evidence from the Death Star, Lu Ning has a more comprehensive understanding. After sorting out her thoughts, she smiled, kept the secret in her heart, and started building her new magic again.

The rest of the day passed like this.

The next day, Lu Ning received a call from Helenzo.

"The vacation is over." She sent a prepared message to Garuda and several others before setting off.

After Helenzo asked Lu Ning about her affairs these days, as expected, he started assigning tasks to her.

"Two days later, you lead a team of about ten people and go south through the Smoker's Forest to the Hermit Valley to contact the Phantom Clan."

"Okay, I need supplies and the latest equipment from the institute."

"Contact Farila for supplies and Chang Zaihao for equipment. I'll approve it."

"Okay, are we going to bring those people from the Phantom Clan with us this time?" Lu Ning asked again.

"No, this is our return visit. The Phantom Clan has its own communication capabilities and does not need to go back. But we must do some things well here." Helenzo took out a piece of information and handed it to Lu Ning, " Find out the details of the Phantom Tribe. They are a very suitable race to be allies, but I don’t just want an ally, if possible..."

"Understood." Lu Ning took the information.

"Do you have any other requests?" Helenzo asked again.

"It's nothing. Please take a look at the report I will prepare later. Oh, there is another possibility. If I encounter any unexpected situation, I may make a big noise. I hope you don't mind then. .”

"It's too vague. Let's wait until something happens to make a judgment." Helenzo frowned, "With the safety of the team as the highest priority, we have selected the best individual equipment for you. Bring me something useful. Something is coming.”

"Don't worry, when did I bring back bad news?" Lu Ning said confidently.

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Two days were enough for Lu Ning and Pi Zang to deal with the spies' problems. She left the rest to the other party and immediately led the team to the Smoker's Forest.

This time there could only be ten people, including her as the captain, so only Garuda and Ruidi set off with her. After a round of equipment updates, Lu Ning was quite satisfied. She didn't like to always have to take into account the safety of her team members.

Starting from Shenghui City, heading south through the border and arriving at Smoker's Forest, this road actually only takes a little more than a day to reach. Those phantoms were slow because they were walking and hitchhiking. For Lu Ning's team, which was moving at full speed, when the sun rose the next day, they could already see the white sky rising in the Smoker's Forest in the distance. It's foggy.

According to what the Phantom Tribe said when they passed through the Smoker Forest, the forest had just recovered at this time. There were basically no powerful monsters left, and the level of danger was far less than before. But for Lu Ning, she still needed to find a safe road for the subsequent team to pass.

The vehicle slowly drove into the Smoker's Forest.

Lu Ning closed her eyes and let go of her spirit, sensing the state of the Smoker's Forest. There isn't that much powerful spiritual power here, and the monsters that once lived here are indeed gone. However, there are a large number of weak forces wandering around.

According to records, there should have been more than a dozen powerful lords in the Smoker Forest, and the largest one among them was the source of the "Smoker" form of the Smoker Forest. At that time, most areas of the Smoker's Forest were shrouded in lingering smoke, which had a lot to do with this lord.

Now, the lord is gone, but the smoke is still there, which is a bit surprising.

"Captain, we will enter the fog zone in ten minutes." Ruidi said. "Oh?" Lu Ning opened her eyes and looked outside through the window. She had not sensed the boundary of the fog zone at all just now, and could only roughly guess the scope of the fog zone through the distribution of those weak mental powers.

"Ruidi, was the foggy area in Smoker's Forest so big before?" Lu Ning asked.

"Bigger than this!"

Reedy grew up near Smoker's Wood, so she knew the situation better. She was also a little excited at the moment. After all, for Ruidi, this was a ghost story that her family often used to scare her when she was a child.

"The Smoker's Forest has been basically shrouded in fog since I was a child! We didn't dare to get too close at all at that time. We could only catch some game in the outer circle of the fog. The place we are now is already inside the original fog circle. Guilty!"

"If the fog area is so big, how did the legend of the 'fog demon' come about at that time? I'm afraid it's not that easy for people to get in, right?"

"There were quite a lot of adventurers at that time, and some were brave enough to go deep into the forest. If the angels were here to back them up, their lives would not be in danger as long as they ran fast," Ruidi said.

The main reason why the Angels did not clear out the Smoker Forest was obviously to protect the natural environment. Otherwise, it would be easy to bulldoze the place with their high-power weapons. But Lu Ning always felt that there was some other secret.

At this time, wisps of fog suddenly began to appear outside the window.

Entering the foggy area was also a gradual process. After the sky dimmed, the trees in the Smoker's Forest began to become hazy. For a while, everyone felt as if they were in another world.

"Visibility is extremely poor, but we can move forward with sensory peripherals," Ruidi reported.

"Are there any signs of suppression of each detection device?" Lu Ning asked.

"They are all working normally. The magic energy remote sensing radar with the longest detection capability can still detect at extreme distances. We can still move forward at full speed."

"No, slow down a little." Lu Ning said.

Her spirit release can't detect that far or so precisely, but the spirit detection device hasn't been invented yet, so she can only rely on herself.

Mxifei's recklessness gave her an inspiration. Through the fluctuations of the spiritual sea, she was able to detect the unexpected spiritual energy released around her, and thus judge those threatening targets with intelligence. In addition, her own research continues to move closer to the spiritual shackles of "people" in this world.

"Next, drive quietly. No matter what you encounter or feel, ignore it and follow the original planned route to the center of the foggy area." Lu Ning took out the spell pen from his sleeve and gently tapped the pen tip on his own On the temples.

"Understood." Everyone replied in unison.

Lu Ning nodded, then activated the spell, and the spiritual probe penetrated into his spiritual sea.

Tourists and the characters in the scene are still different. For tourists, the phenomena, knowledge and records that are harmful to the creatures in the scene are all understandable. As long as they have some knowledge in the distribution center and understand the relevant things, they can resist That kind of pollution.

Of course, some mental damage may not be avoided, because there will still be people in the scene who can kill the souls of tourists, so when conducting this kind of experiment, you must have a full understanding of the target.

Lu Ning has now collected side evidence from many parties, and knows what he may face, and has a full assessment of his ability to bear it. She did a test when she was in Shenghui City, but the result was not satisfactory. This is the second time.

Under her control, the probe touched the first layer of shackles on the spiritual sea, the filtering barrier.

This time, Lu Ning activated the magic and burned a tiny hole in the barrier.

For a moment, an unusual tranquility swept through her spiritual sea, everything turned into deathly silence, and a wisp of green smoke leaked in from the small hole in the barrier, turning into a colorful array of colors in the air.

At the same time, Lu Ning's vision also changed drastically.

She saw that the earth began to shift unnaturally, the sky was torn apart by colorful brilliance, countless weird doors unfolded in the space, and the stones and trees on the surface began to transform into lumps of horn and thick hair.

With just a glance, Lu Ning got a glimpse of the realities that still existed in the world. The vehicle she was riding in had turned into a bone-like texture, and the people driving the vehicle had also turned into shapeless balls of flesh.

Oh, not entirely.

They still retain a certain form, the form of those who have barely managed to stay alive in this world after undergoing bloody self-mutilation surgeries. Even this form was filtered by cognition and transformed into what Lu Ning had seen before.

However, this real world did not shock Lu Ning. She already knew that the world would be similar to this. Even when she looked at her own limbs, they were actually just lumps of flesh and blood. The distribution center's fidelity in this regard was completely trustworthy.

The core does not lie in what the world is like originally. "True cognition" is also false in another sense. Lu Ning does not pursue this unnecessary reality.

She withdrew the probe and began to separate her mental and real-life dual observations, allowing her brain to adapt to processing the two information that originally belonged to different partitions, and began to overwrite those she did not need through the filtered information in her original memory. reality".

There is so much noise in that crazy world.

The vehicle slowly recovered, and its flesh and blood returned to human form. The strange phenomena outside the window were eliminated after Lu Ning compared them one by one. At the same time, waves began to rise again in the spiritual sea.

"Stop." She suddenly said.

Ruidi immediately stopped the car and asked, "Captain, what are your instructions?"

"Garuda got out of the car with me, and I saw something." Lu Ning opened the door and jumped out, "The rest of us will stay where we are and rest for a day. If I don't send back any news after one day, we will return immediately."

"Captain? Our mission..." Garuda was a little surprised.

"Although the mission is to establish contact with the phantom, Helenzo's expectations are more than that. Besides, I also promised him to bring him something shocking." Lu Ning smiled and said, "Follow me. Well, don’t worry, I don’t expect there to be much danger, but it may give you some insight.”

She saw a building between the woods. Of course, from a normal perspective, the building did not exist. The sign hanging above the building could also explain why it was not visible.

[Looking at Zero, the Zero Recording Laboratory. 】