The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

After Shen Ge discussed with Li Xiang, they also planned to go to Donghuan Lake. After the strange man who "looked like" themselves appeared, they would not feel at ease if they did not get rid of him.

According to what the monster in the mirror said before, those "copies" of Shen Ge should have all died, and the monster in the mirror was the last one.

Although the enemy's words were almost unreliable, Shen Ge thought that there was no need for the monster in the mirror to lie in that situation. The only possibility was that his level was too low and he could not access higher-level issues.

No matter what, Shen Ge must go to Donghuan Lake to take a look and try to find that weird guy, or solve the strange passage at the bottom of the lake, otherwise he will not be able to leave with peace of mind.

After Jiang Peiwen finished the treatment, Shen Ge entered the laboratory and took away a blood-rot spider from Xiaoqi, and then went to Donghuan Lake.

After entering East Ring Lake, Shen Ge suddenly felt a very strong fluctuation of strange energy around him. It was obvious that this area was covered by a strange space again.

And it was not an ordinary strange space, but at least three overlapping spaces. He had just stepped into the East Ring Lake and in the blink of an eye he had been pulled to the lawn near the lake. The sky, which had originally been covered with thick clouds in the afternoon, also became lifeless, just like the end of the world in a dream.

"System, scan the surroundings."

[This area is affected by special effects and cannot be detected. 】

"Oh?" Shen Ge encountered the same situation last time at Donghuan Lake. He thought it was caused by the monster in the mirror, but now it seems that it is not that simple?
If it was really the work of the monster in the mirror, then the "shielding" here should have been lifted with his death, but now the shielding effect is still there. Either there is a monster hiding in the dark, or there is something hidden here that produces a shielding effect.

Shen Ge couldn't help but think of the mysterious passage that Zhang Hu mentioned that appeared at the bottom of East Ring Lake. It was very likely that the "shielding" here was caused by that mysterious passage.

"Can you detect what's hindering it? Weird? Strange people? Or is it related to the dream world?" Shen Ge asked.

[An effect similar to "Characteristic: Not coming out" was detected and the detection was blocked. 】

This answer again?

This was exactly the same answer Shen Ge got when he came to East Ring Lake for investigation last time, but he later fell into the dream world. In addition, after solving the problem of the monster in the mirror, Shen Ge thought that he had solved the situation here, so he did not continue to investigate East Ring Lake. This place has been blocked as the research area of ​​Quanlongshan Base.

Previously, Shen Ge thought that his lost "blood" caused the incident of the monster in the mirror, and from the information feedback from the monster in the mirror, it turned out to be true.

But after the system showed this kind of prompt again, Shen Ge knew that things were not that simple. Combined with the "actions" of the Monster Organization and Dr. Chen during this period, he was more certain of this and even suspected that this series of operations were aimed at him.

[It is just that the detection signal in this area seems to be "closed" in the non-exiting realm, not the opponent's ability that is "characteristic: not able to exit". 】

The system's detection results were exactly the same as last time, which was enough to prove that Shen Ge's guess was correct.

"Have any strange characteristics been detected?" Shen Ge asked the system again.

[No strange characteristics have been detected yet. 】

"Then the problem can only be the passage at the bottom of the lake." Now that Shen Ge had a target, he didn't need to explore the surroundings, but went straight to the passage at the bottom of the lake.

Shen Ge stood by the lake and looked at it. The water was turbid and the bottom could not be seen at all. There were wisps of strange black fog floating on the surface of the lake, which looked like the late night lake view of a famous tourist attraction in a horror movie.

After the system detected the surroundings, no strange traces were found. So Shen Ge had only two choices. One was to directly open the strange domain and condense an invisible barrier to make a way through the water. The other was to find a boat to first lock onto the place where the strange energy reacted the strongest, and then condense an invisible barrier.

The former naturally consumes more strange energy than the latter. Although Shen Ge is now at the fifth level and the consumption of strange energy has been reduced a lot compared to before, coming out of the dream world has exhausted the strange energy supplies in his hands.

Fortunately, Shen Ge still had a lot of rewards saved up, including 17 F-level draws, 5 E-level draws, and 1 D-level draw.

Among these, the two things Shen Ge wanted most were both related to strange energy. One was the "Spirit Apple" which could restore all strange energy with one piece, and the other was the "Silkworm" with infinite mana.

What puzzled Shen Ge the most was that the treasure "Silkworm" was only an E-level recovery item. If he drew an A-level or B-level recovery item, wouldn't he be able to be resurrected directly on the spot?

Shen Ge didn't have the chance to draw before, and he still had supplies on him. Now that he was going to investigate Donghuan Lake, he took this opportunity to draw the recovery items first.

"System, draw the recovery item." Shen Ge stood by the lake and called out the system, then drew the lottery directly on the spot.

According to habit, I naturally drew from low to high. I drew 17 F-level recovery items in a row. The most drawn item was "Internal Injury Recovery Pill", a total of 8 bottles, three pills in each bottle, a total of 24 pills, which can be said to be the most "cost-effective" recovery item.

Next is the healing bandage, a frequent draw item in the recovery item draw, second only to the “internal injury healing pill” in quantity, with a total of five sets.

As for the "Spirit Apple" that Shen Ge wanted the most, he only got 17 after 4 draws. Although it’s not much, at least the other things are also useful, and he didn’t get anything just to "make up the numbers".

Next is the E-level recovery product. In the first two times, I drew two "limb repair agents", a strange energy potion that can use strange cells to regenerate.

[Congratulations to the host for drawing the E-level supply - "Repellent Spray". Spraying the spray on the body can emit a sixth-level weird aura, which can deter low-level weirds to a certain extent, but may also attract the peeping of low-level and higher-level weirds. Please use it with caution.]

The third time I drew something new that I had never drawn before. It is strange that there is no such thing as high-level voltage stabilizing low-level voltage, so the specific effect of this spray remains to be tested.

Shen Ge continued to draw the lottery for the fourth time, but he didn't expect to draw the "Ghost Repellent Spray" again. He couldn't help but complain: "Oh my goodness, today's lottery draws are all for two people, right?"

The fifth time, draw!
"Repeat it if you can!"

[Congratulations to the host for drawing the E-level supply - "Spirit Bug". After eating the Spirit Bug, it will decompose in the body, allowing the host to be in a state of full spirit within 10 minutes (that is, there will be no mental exhaustion)] "Silkworm?" Shen Ge's eyes lit up when he drew the Spirit Bug. With this thing, it is equivalent to having another trump card that can even challenge the "Earth" directly.

As long as you get the silkworms, it doesn’t matter if all the previous rewards are black.

"Tsk tsk, I wonder if today's draws are really all double. If there's one more E-level draw and one more silkworm, it would be perfect."

"System, why don't you stop giving me D-level supplies and lower it to a lower level so I can draw?" Shen Ge joked.

The system naturally did not respond to this question. After a moment of silence, Shen Ge began the final D-level supply draw.

[Congratulations to the host for drawing a D-level supply - "Body Regeneration Substance" x1. Using this substance can stimulate self-healing ability. When the 'heart' and 'brain' are intact, the regeneration of the body will be accelerated. 】

With a flash of white light, a two-finger-sized "black rotten meat" appeared in Shen Ge's hand. He had drawn this thing once before, but later Li Xiang discovered that it had great research value and integrated it into the Corrupted Blood Armor, allowing the Corrupted Blood Armor to evolve again.

The fact that the Corrupted Blood Armor now has such a perfect recovery ability has a lot to do with this piece of "black rotten meat". Shen Ge didn't understand what these top-grade supplies "drawn" by the system were before, but now he has a rough idea. It is likely that they are produced by the strange cells of the ancestors in various dream fragments.

As for why some can "take shape" while others are in the most primitive and weird forms, it is probably related to the monster organizations in various worlds.

No matter what, Shen Ge not only won the "Silkworm" and "Spirit Apple" in this lottery, but also harvested such rare Ancestral Weird Cells, which can be said to be a great harvest!
However, these things did not fall from thin air, nor were they "benefits" from the system, but were things that Shen Ge had accumulated over the past six months.

In the past, Shen Ge had the habit of accumulating lottery draw times to draw all at once. In his words, it was more enjoyable. Li Xiang once teased him that he looked like someone who had just come out of a drug rehabilitation center. But regardless of anything else, accumulating enough times to draw all at once and getting a good thing can at least make people forget about the times they drew the rubbish.

what?
What if all the points are garbage after more than ten times? If you can't save enough, you can only spend your life. If Shen Ge doesn't draw the silkworm, or even the spirit apple, it is hard to guarantee that he won't draw all the more than 60,000 system points in his hand and "empty" the entire East Ring Lake lakebed passage and the world.

Of course, this is just a joke. After all, the lottery mechanism for system recovery items is completely different from the lottery with system points. The former is drawn from various fragment worlds, while the latter is just the transfer of surrounding objects in the current world, and there are many restrictions.

This is also the reason why Shen Ge rarely uses system points to draw lots since he got used to using his own abilities in conjunction with the Red Mist Armor to fight.

Although Shen Ge no longer had to worry about the consumption of strange energy with the spiritual apple, he still decided to find a boat and approach the center of the lake while using the system scan and the strange eye to find the entrance to the passage.

The question is how much more valuable a Gui can be than the system points. With more than 100 system points in hand, Shen Ge simply doesn't care about the scanning fee of points each time.

Shen Ge had been here several times before Donghuan Lake was affected by the strange things. He came here again after the strange things happened. He was already very familiar with this place.

The lakeshore was eerie and the boats at the boat rental site looked like they had been abandoned for years. They were dusty and rusty, and were chained together. They swayed and creaked when the wind blew.

Fortunately, Shen Ge had already gotten used to this strange environment and depressing sounds. He boarded a boat and rowed towards the center of the lake.

Under the dim sky and turbid black water, as he walked toward the center of the lake, Shen Ge had the illusion that he was slowly being swallowed by Donghuan Lake.

When the boat was rowed to the center of the lake, Shen Ge found that from the time he entered the lake until now, there was not even a single fluctuation on the water. The muddy water reflected the dim sky, making people feel a sense of oppression as if the sky was falling.

"Ah."

Shen Ge snorted softly. This familiar feeling made him realize that he was surrounded by strange black fog. As he moved, the strange black fog in the entire lake was gathering here.

"So it seems that the last time I was affected by the monster in the mirror was because I was hit by the strange energy? It's just that my rating was only level 3 at that time, and my strange energy was insufficient. I couldn't withstand the erosion of the strange energy here, so I had some hallucinations." Shen Ge could clearly feel that the strange energy here still wanted to erode him, but he was now level 5, which was already a high-level strange existence. The strange energies of both sides entered the stage of contest and offset.

Shen Ge did not notice this at first, but realized that as he approached the center of the lake, his own strange energy was continuously decreasing. Then he realized that the strange energy in his body was resisting the erosion of the surrounding strange energy black fog.

Shen Ge's physique had changed long before the fusion system, and he was now half human and half monster. Even though he couldn't intuitively feel the erosion of monster energy like ordinary humans, due to the physique of that half monster, when he was eroded by monster energy, he would not fall into hallucinations directly, but would automatically release his own monster energy to resist.

This is a "passive skill". Just like when a wound on the body causes bleeding, the platelets will actively clot the blood. When Shen Ge is eroded by strange energy, his own strangeness will actively resist.

Now that the location where the strange energy is released in the lake has been determined, Shen Ge no longer wastes time. He directly spreads out the strange area and condenses an invisible barrier to block himself.

Condensing the invisible barrier consumed some strange energy, but when Shen Ge was wrapped up by the invisible barrier, the strange energy black fog was blocked by the invisible barrier, and he was no longer affected by the erosion of strange energy and his strange energy was no longer reduced.

Then, Shen Ge raised his hand and grasped the air to condense an invisible barrier, and the center of the lake in front seemed to be pushed open by an invisible big hand.

The lake water was pushed to both sides with a "splash". At the bottom of the lake, a black vortex led to an unobservable bottom. This strange "passage" reminded Shen Ge of the strange blood-red giant mouth he passed through when he went to the "future" on Sakura Island.

But the strange thing is that Shen Ge clearly remembered that the last time he came to Donghuan Lake for investigation, he asked Xiao Qi to use the blood-rotten tentacles and blood spiders to search the bottom of the lake. It was also at that time that dozens of corpses were found, including many soldiers from the Special Policy Department.

It was also at that time that the "concept" of the world outside the world gradually became clear.

Just as Shen Ge was about to jump from the boat to the big pit in front and get close to the vortex channel to check it out, he found that the strange black fog around him was getting thicker and thicker. The sky, which was originally as dark and depressing as the end of the world in a dream, was now gathered with a thick layer of "dark clouds".

This "dark cloud" looked very familiar to Shen Ge, and it looked very much like the "big whale" he had been chasing in his dream world a few days ago!
Shen Ge immediately opened his strange eyes and looked up at the sky, cooperating with the system's scan, but strangely enough, he still did not notice any strange traces in this space.

Something's wrong! (End of chapter)