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Chapter 185: Gu Pan: Beyond the sea is... (asking for monthly tickets)
"The supply point (19, 19) is just ahead. Everyone, be careful and slow down."

Standing on a straw bale, Tang Rou, who had a hot body but cold eyes, took down the telescope and pointed at a faintly visible jungle in the east and gave instructions.

Do not enter the woods and do not cross the water; this is the basic rule for those who go out.

If a captain does not even have this basic quality, then the team he leads will definitely not have a good ending.

Obviously, this is different from Gu Yueming, who looks like a second-level vase but has never experienced a life-and-death battle.

Tang Rou is a tough character who has truly emerged from fighting through blood and fire.

Along the way, she encountered many attacks from fish monsters, which made her feel very depressed.

More than twenty of them happened.

It was only a short distance of less than five kilometers, and we encountered so many monsters in succession. This was simply unimaginable in the wasteland.

Fortunately, these fish monsters are not particularly strong, and the strongest one is only around level 14.

Moreover, they did not appear at the same time, but attacked in waves, with two or three at most and only a single one at less.

For a team like theirs that has three second-level and eleven first-level transcendents, such an attack is not difficult to deal with.

But at the same time, the sharp-minded Tang Rou also noticed that the closer they got to (19, 19), the stronger the enemies became. Both the number and level of these monsters were increasing as they moved forward.

It seemed like someone was hiding behind them, trying to stop them from getting closer.

This makes people wonder if there is something special going on at that supply point.

Ordinary people might be able to take a detour, but they were different. They were going out on a mission assigned by the Bureau of Control, to investigate the large number of alien monsters that had recently appeared outside the border.

Moreover, on the other hand, there is also the thought of honing one's own mind.

Such an enemy happens to be the highest quality whetstone.

If there was one thing that made people feel a little bit wrong, Tang Rou could only say that it was that her innate skill as a "rogue", "Bloodthirst", which could be used to detect the enemy's movements in advance, suddenly became ineffective.

This was indeed very sudden, but Tang Rou did not find it too difficult to accept.

I think there may be some special magnetic field here that affects my judgment.

That's what the books say.

Anyway, this is in the wasteland. No matter how strong the enemy is, how can they threaten a team as powerful as theirs?
Just be careful.

After a brief thought, she gave the order: "Set up camp on the spot, divide into groups of three, and explore forward in a circle formation."

The Jie-shaped circular formation is a common troop deployment in ancient books of military strategy used for exploring forests and mountains. Its general purpose is to allow one side to ensure that there are people behind them and to be able to keep an eye on all directions, so as not to be attacked from both sides.

It’s a very simple method, but simplicity often means effectiveness.

At that moment, the hunting team was divided into groups of three, with twelve people standing out on the four sides and two people staying behind to provide support.

There are a total of four people from the Gu family who came here for hunting and training this time. In addition to Gu Pan and Gu Yueming, there is another group of sword masters named Gu Zhou and sword servant Gu Zheng. Both of them are under 20 years old and are "qualified persons" who graduated in the same year as Gu Pan.

Because of the special situation of their family, the master and servant must not be separated, so a member of the Tang family and a member of the Song family were arranged to work with each of them to observe the situation on the left and right rear respectively.

The group assigned to Gu Pan and Gu Yueming was a young man from the Tang family. His occupation was a "scout". The extraordinary people in this category were nicknamed "bombers" and were good at using all kinds of powerful firearms. This man was no exception. His waist and back were bulging, and it seemed that he had hidden countless firearms and bombs.

He introduced himself with a familiar smile, "Hello, everyone. Let's cooperate from now on. Please take care of me. Haha, my name is Tang Yuming, a scout. I am very good at observing the surrounding enemy situation. You know what I mean, haha."

"Ah."

Gu Pan and Gu Yueming both nodded politely without saying anything more.

At this time, Gu Pan's expression was not very good.

"Strange, the location is correct, the geographical environment is correct, but why are the monsters I encountered different from what I remember?"

She frowned, looked around constantly, and muttered to herself.

In the more than one hundred "cycles of history" before, she clearly remembered that all kinds of strange situations occurred after her group entered the supply point at the northeastern corner of the border.

No matter whether it was the rotten corpses wrapped around the bodies of himself and others, or those strange snakes with bulging bellies, or the last giant octopus monster with huge tentacles more than ten meters long, all the powerful enemies appeared at a clear time node - after entering the supply point lighthouse.

But now, everything has changed.

First of all, there are the monsters that appear along the way. Some are fish monsters with fish heads and human bodies, and some are strange fish with human heads and fish bodies. These monsters have unique appearances. They are new this time and have never appeared in previous history.

Secondly, the level 14 "Alien Path Extraordinary" octopus monster that he had killed with a few swords in his memory did not appear again this time.

"Strange, where did the little octopus monster go? Who made it stop appearing? What exactly does it want to do? Where is it spying on us? Could it be..." After the people around him dispersed, Gu Pan raised his voice slightly and talked to himself. He seemed to have thought of something, and an inspiration was about to jump out of his mind.

At this time, Gu Yueming, who was standing behind her, lifted her skirt gracefully to avoid the mud on the ground from staining her snow-white skirt. Hearing this, she couldn't help but answer seriously, "I don't know, but it wasn't me anyway."

"?"

This inexplicable answer made Gu Pan's expression freeze instantly, and he suddenly forgot what he had just thought of.

"Damn it!"

If you have nothing to do, you can just bite a lighter. Stop interrupting my thoughts!

It was extremely uncomfortable to have his inspiration just coming to him interrupted, and Gu Pan instantly became furious.

As a second-level expert, I am the worst one among them! Are you here to hold me back and reduce my chances of survival?
If I can go back alive this time, I will definitely ask my family to find me an obedient sword servant sister!

She immediately glared at her aunt in annoyance, rolled her eyes, and cursed in her heart, but due to her status, she couldn't curse out loud, so she could only swallow her anger.

A group of people set up camp in an open space outside the forest, using vehicles to form a simple windshield for the accompanying auxiliary personnel to wait there.

Although these people are not extraordinary people, they all have good marksmanship. With two first-level extraordinary people in charge, they can definitely walk around the wasteland with ease.

Now, after everyone was ready, they began to cross the slightly dense jungle and entered the lighthouse area, the supply point in the middle.

The lobby of this lighthouse building should have been a theater or a church in the past. It has a very medieval Gothic style and covers a very large area. On the top roof, there is a star-shaped flag symbolizing a star tower, fluttering in the wind.

Almost everyone felt that the invisible and inexplicable pressure dissipated a lot when they saw the Star Tower flag.

This is the confidence that the Star Tower brings them.

In fact, this flag is of no use at all, it is just a symbol.

This is the psychological effect of living in a safe zone for many years under the protection of the Star Tower.

In fact, although the Star Flag itself has no power, as long as it is there, it means that this is the radiation range of the Star Tower.

There is a very common but effective saying in the post-apocalyptic era, which is that the truth is everywhere within the range of the star tower. This is no joke.

Only Gu Pan did not think it was appropriate.

As the only person who has awakened the memory of more than a hundred past cycles, she knows very well that in this cycle space where she and others are trapped, the Star Tower cannot really take effect, and this flag is fake.

Just like that giant octopus, it is definitely a monster beyond the second level, maybe it has reached the third level, but here, the Star Tower cannot control it.

"Open ruins are actually small spaces that are detached from reality! This is another world, or you can call it the inner world..."

As the team got closer to the gate, Gu Pan had one hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, ready to strike at any time.

At this time, any slight disturbance will inevitably lead to an overwhelming attack.

Suddenly, Tang Yuming, who was walking with them, let out a light "eh" and, after attracting their attention, he pointed to a simple door panel in front of the left and said, "Look, there is also that strange sign here."

"The soil has been dug up."

"It's still slightly raised."

"This seems to be..."

Two groups of people were on guard at the entrance of the lighthouse in front, while another group came over and stood with Gu Pan and the others, discussing the door panel that was stuck in the ground.

Finally, Gu Pan couldn't bear it any longer and said blankly: "Don't pretend, this is a tombstone! There are words written on it!"

Written clearly on the door panel was: The tomb of fools who did not leave their last words in time before they died!
The handwriting and the obviously mean tone were exactly the same as what they said in the ancient temple before: "If you don't tell me where the limit of our territory is, your whole family will die!"

After being interrupted by Gu Pan, everyone said that the two wooden boards must have been made by the same person.

As an elder, Gu Yueming stepped out to smooth things over, saying, "Don't think too much. Since someone has built a cemetery here, it means someone has buried a body. If someone has buried a body, it means there is a body underneath. If there is a body, it means someone has died."

As soon as these words came out, everyone bowed and complimented him.
"Ah, you are worthy of being a senior of the Gu family. You really have a keen eye."

"I am ashamed of myself for not being able to compare with you in terms of vision."

"What senior Gu? This is the elder sister of the Gu family. Can you speak?"

Amid the buzz of conversation, Gu Pan rolled his eyes.

Since when can talking nonsense be considered as having a keen eye?
This group of people are clearly looking down on you, because Gu Yueming is pretty and dressed seductively. It's already this time, a group of guys who dominate the lower body, if Xu Shu was here, he would definitely scold you, "You dare to be lustful at this critical moment, you deserve to die!"
I wonder why I like to compare him so much recently...

It's all because these people are too stupid...

Gu Pan quickly calmed himself down and said, "Let's dig it out and take a look. Let's learn more about the situation."

"makes sense."

The two young men from the Song family were both strong and powerful. They immediately drew out their swords and used them as shovels, digging the soil one shovel at a time.

Soon a dead body was dug up.

Almost at the moment when the corpse was exposed, Tang Yuming beside him exclaimed, "We are a Tang family member!"

The clothes on the corpse were still very intact. They were exactly the uniforms of the Tang family and were easy to identify.

Several people immediately worked together to remove the dirt from the body and carefully dug it out to ensure that the body was intact.

Then, a male corpse was dug out with fatal wounds in the form of large holes in his chest and abdomen.

After clearing the dirt covering his face, Tang Yuming suddenly cried out and could no longer sit still.

"How is it possible... How could it be me... Am I already dead?"

Tang Yuming staggered back, his face pale.

The corpse that was dug out was not just a member of the Tang family, this, this was clearly his own body!

At this moment, his expression changed continuously, from the complacency when he first found the body, to the displeasure when he found out that the body was a member of the Tang family, and now to the shock when he found out that the body was his own.

His facial expressions change so quickly and are so rich that he can be called a master of face changing.

Others were also horrified when they saw this sudden and bizarre scene, but some people kindly advised: "Don't get excited, maybe it's just an illusion."

"Yes, you are still alive, how can you be dead?"

"Don't scare yourself. We are all the same. If you die, does that mean we are all dead too?"

"This is obviously fake. Maybe it's just a fake person. I suspect that the guy who left the handwriting is the mastermind behind this place."

"Yes, that's right!"

After several people talked about it, Tang Yuming's face looked a little better. However, when he saw the familiar corpse on the ground, he felt creepy and had an inexplicable feeling in his heart.

At this moment, he almost wanted to escape from this place and never come back.

However, Gu Pan looked at Tang Yuming seriously.

She was not actually surprised to find her own bodies. If things went as expected, when the lighthouse door was opened, everyone present would be able to see their rotting corpses inside.

But there are two strange things.

The first was that she carefully recalled her memories and discovered that in the past, Tang Yuming seemed to disappear every time a war broke out, and she didn't know whether he had become a deserter or been abducted.

Secondly, although everyone will be able to see corpses wearing their own clothes later, those corpses are either rotten or have become dry bones, and their true faces cannot be seen at all. They can only use clues such as the following accessories to make them think that it is themselves.

In terms of impact, it is far less than the body of "Tang Yuming" in front of him.

After all, this was a fresh corpse, and although it was cold, it had not yet rotted. It looked as fresh as new, and it didn't look like it had been dead for long.

"It's a bit strange..." She took a step forward and chopped the body on the ground with her sword, splitting it in half.

Tang Yuming's eyelids jumped: "Gu Qian, what the hell are you doing!"

He was really scared. When "himself" on the ground was split in half, he inexplicably had the illusion that he was also split in half. He felt his buttocks were shining and the hairs on his back stood up.

Gu Pan looked expressionlessly at the corpse that was split evenly, looking at the blood, flesh, meridian patterns, yellow fat, red flesh, white bones, and gray brain and lungs inside.

"It's a real corpse." Gu Pan retracted his gaze, and while delivering the bad news, he glanced at Tang Yuming and casually asked, "How many cigarettes do you smoke?"

"One and a half packs a day, less than two packs, what's wrong?" Tang Yuming was puzzled, but still answered subconsciously.

"Then maybe this is really you." Gu Pan pointed at the gray and black lung in the corpse, and then walked towards the front of the supply point, leaving Tang Yuming and others looking at each other in bewilderment. The latter looked even more pale.

This, this is me? A great fear enveloped Tang Yuming.

At this time, Gu Pan had already walked in front of Tang Rou.

The latter looked at this "handsome man" who was so brave and had an affair with a widow at such a young age, and raised his chin slightly: "What do you mean, over there?"

Considering that the situation was completely different from his previous cycles, Gu Pan considered for a moment and chose to avoid talking about the cycle. Instead, he said concisely: "Tang Yuming's body appeared over there. I suspect this is an open ruins. We fell into the ruins and can't get out for the time being."

Compared with the obscure and difficult to explain "cycle" theory, it is more convincing to make a direct conclusion and state the possibility of the ruins.

"Relics?" Song Qixing at the side questioned softly.

Of course, this doubt no longer existed after Gu Pan said, "The upgraded driver cannot be opened. If you don't believe me, try it."

Seeing this, Tang Rou's beautiful eyes moved and she looked at "Gu Qian" a few more times.

"The ruins are strange. Logically, we shouldn't be able to enter the ruins without using the Heart Fire Incense Burner. The special barrier will isolate us outside." Song Qixing touched his chin and questioned again.

Unlike his profession as a "fire mage" with a bad temper, in reality he is a person who is good at questioning and thinking, and his nickname is "the nitpicker".

He looked at everyone, especially Tang Rou, and smiled, "They are all newbies who have never been to the ruins. This is understandable, but you should know that if we remain in the ruins after the Heart Fire Incense Burner is exhausted, we will be expelled."

"That makes sense." Tang Rou became a little suspicious.

Gu Pan frowned and said, "Open ruins may be different from other common ruins. For example, they may exist within the border line."

really!

Song Qixing chuckled and glanced at Gu Pan, thinking that according to secret rumors, the Gu family has a secret base with an entrance leading to a special relic. It seems that this matter is not groundless.

But this will be discussed later. At the moment, he looked around and said with a smile, "Friend Gu Qian is right. Everything is possible. If it is really a special relic, then we are in danger. There are only first-level monsters in the wasteland at most, but if it is a relic, then there is no telling what the upper limit is."

"That's good to know." Gu Pan curled his lips inwardly.

"You'll know the details once you see it. Since this place is so strange, I won't be polite."

Having said that, a bright flame condensed in Song Qixing's palm, which continued to collapse inward into a condensed fireball. Without hesitation, he smashed open the door of the supply point lighthouse.

"Fire Mage", "Fire Bombardment"!
In the huge roar and explosion, it seemed that the entire lighthouse was shaking.

This made Gu Pan's eyes widen. Before this, Song Qixing always rushed to the front, but was killed instantly by the monster octopus every time. He didn't have any particularly outstanding performance.

But it was not until this moment that she finally realized that the other party was so powerful.

This is the strength of a second-level transcendent!

As the smoke and dust dissipated, a strange salty smell suddenly appeared in front of everyone, and everyone also saw the situation behind them.

"what?"

Everyone was stunned.

Tang Rou and the other Tang family members stared blankly ahead, their mouths wide open in shock.

Song Qixing, who had blasted open the door with his own hands, almost popped his eyes out.

Inside the gate is not the hall inside the lighthouse.

It is a sparkling blue sea.

To be precise, it is a strait.

The water surface is very layered. Above is the blue sea surface, but less than ten meters away, the color turns gray.

Going further down, the color became darker and darker, and less than fifty meters away, it was pitch black.

It was bottomless and as dark as ink, like a monster standing in the abyss with its huge mouth open.

The terrifying and powerful feeling of oppression made everyone feel like they were in a dream.

"Impossible... How could it be..."

Song Qixing, Tang Rou and other second-level beings also moved their lips. Although it was unbelievable, the special and iconic sea surface in front of them completely explained everything. They said almost in unison:

"here it is……"

"Sea of ​​Death!"

(End of this chapter)