Chapter 345: Into the Wilderness Again
Translator:EndlessFantasy Translation
Editor:EndlessFantasy Translation
Luo Yuan found a torn piece of cloth nearby, carefully packed both the eyeb.a.l.l.s into it and carried them on his back. He wanted to collect much more from the giant beast’s carca.s.s but as he was left with very little Will, he gave up the thought. He picked up a few pieces of the beast’s scales and put into his pack.
Luo Yuan then moved to wake Lin Feiyan up. She opened her eyes and looked lost. Slowly, she regained her memory of what had happened and stood up immediately. She then noticed her surroundings and blushed in embarra.s.sment.
Her jacket was burnt but she was not completely naked as there was a silver-grey scale armor that was as thin as a moth’s wing covering her body. Apparently, the armor had no defensive attributes and acted more like an undergarment. Apart from the purpose of having something under her jacket, the armor hugged and outlined the curves of her body.
"Captain, the mission is completed. Let’s go!" Luo Yuan wiped off his stunned expression and composed himself. He did not expect her to have had such a great body under her loose jacket. She looked like she had D-cup b.r.e.a.s.t.s and her waist was smaller than his thigh.
"Oh!" Lin Feiyan responded. She then realized that she was too soft-spoken, her strength & leaders.h.i.+p stolen by Luo Yuan. That was unforgivable. She was the captain of the mission and she should be the one who made the decisions. She looked at Luo Yuan who was trying to avoid eye contact and said calmly,"Since the mission is complete, let us go back."
Luo Yuan looked at her in doubt. He thought his captain was behaving a little strangely. As she led the way, they headed towards the campsite. Lin Feiyan walked at a swift pace, clenching her fist. When she was controlled by the giant beast, her memory was not lost, only her thought process was controlled. She could see and hear but had no command of her body. Soon, she recalled what she saw, thinking of the embarra.s.sing scene in her mind, feeling her face flush yet again. She pursed her lips and walked even faster.
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Luo Yuan followed the members back to the department. He did not accept any missions for the next 10 days. He was training at the department in the morning and training outside the city in the evening. Once he had full control of his abilities that had skyrocketed, he started to look for the Wisdom Tree.
Every day, he headed out earlier and came back late in the night.
Soon one month had pa.s.sed, every clue jotted down on his notebook were being crossed off one by one. There were very few clues remaining. Besides his completion of five Grade-D missions, by accidents, which increased his experience value to 139920/153600, there were no trails found to the Wisdom Tree.
He looked at all the clues that he had and frowned. Without a doubt, some of the evidence to his search of the Wisdom Tree was obvious, but when he was searching for it, it could not be found. He did not think that it was merely an accident. Perhaps one of the clues was an accident, but not all of them. What could he have missed?
Suddenly, he had a breakthrough as he studied the coordinates of the incidents. He asked his secretary, Sun Yuting, to get a white board and a marker. He then drew out the longitudes and lat.i.tudes, and mark down the coordinates accordingly. He did not notice anything at first but when he was done marking, he realized that the coordinates were focusing on a specific district. He marked a big circle to include all the coordinates
He was thrilled! He estimated the coverage to be a few thousand square kilometers. "Now I know! No wonder I couldn’t find it, the activity area was ma.s.sive!"
Luo Yuan also noticed that the coordinates that were on the edge were denser. He suspected that its old nest that was not in the reconstruction area but was in the wilderness instead. At the same time, he was surprised. Who could have thought that there was such a ma.s.sive intelligent race hiding near the reconstruction area.
There was an unknown sadness that rose within him. They were left in the reconstruction area. If there was a large-scale outbreak, it could be destroyed immediately. But the wilderness was boundless, n.o.body knew how many intelligent races were thriving out there. The reconstruction area seemed to be strong but it was the last fortress for human beings. It could not afford any disasters.
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Luo Yuan estimated the direction of the old nest. He then informed the office director, Chen Xinjie, of what he had discovered and left the department immediately. As fast as the wind, he had left Hope City within 10 minutes. Half an hour later, he arrived in the wilderness. The howl of a strong wind filled the air and was felt blowing on Luo Yuan’s s.h.i.+rt. He levitated up in the sky and looked at the land. The wilderness and the reconstruction area were two completely different worlds. It was filled with lush greenery and provided a lease for life to the ecosystem. It was blanketed with all kinds of green life that covered the area like a boundless green ocean. The plants were growing and countless leaves carpeted every inch of the land. Luo Yuan was searching the place at his view of the skyline, but apart of the emerald landscape before him, there was nothing else.
After a while, he plunged towards the land like an eagle, diving for a kill. He moved so fast, nearly moving at the speed of sound, a strong wind blew against his face. Soon the air became humid, and his body was protected by a thick s.h.i.+eld. At such speeds, the air pressure was increasing at an alarming rate. He was relying on the gravity as his Will was of no use at that height, apart from controlling his direction. Not long after, he slowed down and landed safely on the ground.
He inhaled deeply to fill his lungs with the invigorating fresh air within the greens. Even since he entered the reconstruction area, he had not had a breath of fresh air as the air was heavily polluted with industrial smoke. At moments like that, he would recall his experience in the wilderness, but he was not reminiscing. An endless amount of danger awaited in the lively jungle. n.o.body would miss living the life of a savage, where having to sleep in the wilderness was extremely unpredictable.
Pa.s.sing the transition zone to the wilderness, Luo Yuan entered the jungle. It was near noon and the sun was s.h.i.+ning but it felt like the evening in there. The light s.h.i.+ning through was dimmed by the canopy overhead. The gigantic trees towered above him, vines that looked like snakes and shrubs that were filled with poisonous thorns made him think that he had entered into a realm of chaos.
The bugs in the shrubs thought he was food approaching them, so they started circling him. The bugs went through a major mutation where he could not identify what they were anymore. Luo Yuan frowned as he felt terrifying vibes cross his mind. Countless washbasin-sized bugs fell from the sky before him.
He stepped on one of them, there was a colorful liquid oozing out of it. He proceeded to walk. In half an hour, he saw more than 10 mutated creatures dead along the way, many smaller bugs scattered all over the place. Luo Yuan was not who he was before, so apart from those creatures that were level seven and above, the rest could do nothing to him.
When he achieved +17 Physique, his speed of attack had reached the level where an ordinary person could not antic.i.p.ate them with their naked eyes. His attack could create sonic bursts and if he was to use all his strength, he could double up the sonic bursts. Even without the Zhanmadao, he could kill attackers that were on a green level with his bare hands.