Chapter 318: Departure

"investigation?"

In a forest tens of miles away from Huangshan Temple.

The bonfire was burning vigorously, and several members of the team gathered together.

Gu Lince took out a map embroidered with black cloth and unfolded it in front of the others.

"Here's the map."

He also held a small black vial in his hand, poured out drops of black ink, and evenly spread it on the map with his hands.

Immediately, some small dots on the map slowly lit up red. At the same time, some text also appeared.

After finishing all this, he took out another yellow stick incense with the thickness of a finger, rubbed his finger on the head of the incense, and immediately ignited it.

Wisps of gray-white smoke rose slowly, forming a circle around the crowd as if they were alive, without dispersing.

"The captain's Fragrant Mountain Road is becoming more and more proficient, I'm afraid he is going to break through the Fragrance Soul Realm?" Chen Fan said with a smile.

"It's still early, but I have some new insights, so I shortened the time for offering incense." Gu Lince smiled.

He looked around.

Meizi, Chen Fan, Xia Haiji, plus him, are the entire staff for this investigation mission.

"This investigation is carried out in reality, and there is no need to go to Youfu. Don't worry, everyone."

Lin Newsyan also secretly heaved a sigh of relief. He had promised Sword Master Hongye not to re-enter Youfu without authorization. If this task was to be carried out in Youfu, then he would have to think carefully about whether it was worth it.

"Where is the investigation?" Meizi asked seriously. "All investigation tasks are the most dangerous and troublesome. I said it's no wonder the rewards are so generous."

"It's Outland." Gu Lince said it directly and frankly without concealing it.

"Sure enough." Chen Fan exhaled, "I knew it was an investigation of Outland Exploration. It must have been released by the hidden monster clan, right?"

"I don't know who the employer is. We just need to do what we need to do." Gu Lince said lightly. "In addition, apart from us, there will be a team that does not belong to Huangshan join us. The two sides cooperate to act together."

"And the team? It seems that people still don't trust the strength of our team." Chen Fan sneered, "Just don't make it a disguised bodyguard escort mission like last time."

"No." Gu Lince shook his head. "Outland missions are always dangerous, and they are investigation missions. We must act as pioneers to explore outland areas that no one has visited before. So apart from us, there must be an investigation and research team to cooperate. This is the old rule."

"Do you know who it is?" Xia Haiji asked aloud.

"I don't know. The other party will come and meet here." Gu Lince replied.

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly turned his head and looked out of the woods.

There was a sound of footsteps coming from that direction.

Several men and women in red robes came out of the darkness.

The leader was a tall, strong man with a bald head and a huge silver ring on his nose.

"Captain Gu Lince?"

"Captain Jian An?" Gu Lince stood up and turned to face him. "Is your team all here?"

"It's all here, the captain can decide the departure time at any time." The bald man Jian An grinned, showing his white teeth.

"I don't need to talk about the danger of this mission, do I? Please cooperate with the captain when the time comes to avoid any unexpected situation." Gu Lince said in a deep voice.

"Don't worry, it's absolutely fine." The bald Jian An responded quickly. Under the firelight, his white eyes secretly glanced at the other people around the fire, without making a sound.

"Then everything is ready. Can we go?" Gu Lince confirmed again, this time he was not only looking at the first team of red robes, but also talking to his own team members.

"No problem." Meizi said.

"Don't worry." Chen Fan smiled.

Lin Xin nodded silently.

The red-robed man over there also nodded silently one by one.

"Well."

Gu Lince stretched out his hand and pressed down.

boom!

The ground suddenly shook violently. Then a puff of bright yellow smoke and dust dispersed immediately.

The thick yellow mist quickly enveloped the two teams at the same time. The surroundings suddenly became invisible. There is thick yellow fog everywhere.

Lin Xin couldn't see the other team members, but a white character slowly lit up under his feet. Only the size of an egg.

He recognized the meaning of this character, hesitated on his face, and stepped on the rune lightly.

Chi!

Suddenly, there was a sharp whistling sound in the ear.

He rose into the air as if wrapped in mist, and flew towards the distance.

"Everyone, be careful. This is a one-time space fog, and it will naturally become lighter and thinner when it reaches the place. Be sure to pay attention to the surrounding safety when landing."

Not far away came the voice of the bald man in the red robe telling him to speak.

Here, Gu Lince didn't make any sound. I thought that everyone else in the team should know this, so I didn't bother to say more.

The feeling of flying in the air lasted for quite a while, Lin Xin estimated in his heart that after about half an hour, the fog gradually began to fall.

Before I knew it, I soon had a down-to-earth touch.

The mist also slowly began to fade and thin.

Only then did Lin Xin gradually see the environment around him.

Total darkness.

The clouds are as black as ink.

He was being carried by the mist, floating at an altitude of at least tens of thousands of meters.

Looking down.

A patch of the same pitch-black hills rising and falling like black faces covered with pimples. In some places, there are black forests that sway slowly and flutter like water plants. Those trees are like enlarged versions of black hair, constantly being swayed by waves.

Some chubby creatures like buttons crawled slowly on the ground.

Some of them stop and go, and some have a hole in their back, and there is a blood-red one-eyed inside.

"This is the outer region pointed by the Escape Talisman. Go down, everyone be careful." Gu Lince sent a voice transmission to everyone.

Only then did Lin Xin notice that everyone in the two teams was wrapped in yellow mist and floating in the sky, and they were descending rapidly at this time.

But the so-called down-to-earth feeling before is actually a colorful boat full of patches released by Gu Lince.

The boat carried everyone on its back, and was gradually taking over the flying function of the yellow mist that was slowly dissipating, and flew downward.

Passing through several clusters of thin black clouds, the variegated boat was getting closer and closer to the ground.

Whoosh....

The boat fell from the sky. It lightly landed on the edge of a black hill, and slid hiss for a short distance before coming to a complete stop.

"Disembark."

Gu Lince and others jumped out of the small boat one after another.

The man in the red robe followed suit.

Both captains raised a little white light in their hands at the same time, floating above everyone's heads, and then exploded with a bang. It turned into two white canopies, covering the heads of everyone.

"The talisman can only last for half a day, Meizi." Gu Lince looked at Meizi.

"give it to me."

Meizi reached out and took a small golden box from her waist, and threw it forward.

The box grows in the wind, from the size of a palm, to rapidly expanding, and becomes a rectangular dark yellow car in a few blinks of an eye. The lower two rows of more than ten wheels look a bit like tanks.

The car looks like a square and rectangular chariot, with windows and doors, and faint white rune lines on the surface.

"This is a mobile rune car, which can provide us with rune halo support." Gu Lince explained. "There are three effects in total, accelerated recovery, enhanced vision, and toxin resistance."

"Very good!" The bald man in the red robe nodded appreciatively. "Next, according to the map, we need to draw a new map with sufficient detail in this area. And understand and eliminate possible dangerous threats as much as possible."

"Of course." Gu Lince agreed.

"Haiji." He looked at Lin Xin, "Go to the north and have a look. Come back within ten miles. Don't exceed a stick of incense."

"Okay." Judging by his tone, it was obvious that the original Xia Haiji was doing early investigation. Lin Xin didn't talk nonsense, and walked directly to the north.

"Meizi, you go to the south. It's also restricted."

"clear."

The rest of the stuff on both sides. As well as the elimination of underground risk factors, Gu Lince and Hongpao did it themselves, but Chen Fan walked to the rune car and closed his eyes, not knowing what to do.

Lin Xin walked carefully and slowly on the dark, lacquered mud floor. His feet were abnormally soft, as if he was stepping on a soft wool blanket. The air could not be breathed at all, and there was a turbid and sewage smell.

Looking back at the position of the rune car, it was far away, and there was a white rune canopy turning naturally in mid-air.

"This is convenient. The height of the canopy can at least allow the monks within ten miles around to see the coordinates." He nodded secretly in his heart.

According to the function of the runes shown above, only those who are approved can see the white light of the canopy within a certain range, and use this as a positioning. The rest of the external objects cannot see the light.

Looking back, Lin Xin walked out of the range covered by the rune car. Except for the rear, the other three directions were all dark, only the faint moonlight shining down from the sky. hazy.

Moving forward carefully, a cake-like black creature more than three meters high and four meters wide appeared in front of it soon.

This guy slowly moved his body to Lin Xin's left side with his whole body making wet clattering noises.

Every time it moves, it makes a puffing sound, and the air holes grow around the body and are evenly distributed.

Lin Xin approached carefully, and stood in front of the cake creature to observe carefully.

The surface of this guy's body is covered with sticky black mucus, and his moving speed is surprisingly slow. With such a big body, his moving speed is actually slower than that of ordinary people.

Lin Xin walked around this guy, took out a resentment talisman, and injected it with spiritual energy. no response.

"There is no resentment, it seems that it is not a death resentment creature."

He also took out a small palm-sized formation plate, which was densely engraved with various special runes.

Three gemstones of different colors are inlaid on the edge, red, green and yellow.

Injecting spiritual energy, the red gemstone suddenly lit up.

"It's highly toxic."

Lin Xin closed his breathing and changed it to internal breathing, mainly to consume spiritual energy, so he was naturally not afraid of the poisonous gas released by this guy.

This disk array was distributed to him by the captain, and it was specially used to test the concentration of toxins in the surrounding air.

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East of the hills.

A black cake-colored creature more than five meters high was hit hard by a black meteor hammer, and with a loud crash, it rotted into a big puddle of yellow and black sticky things.

The meteor hammer quickly circled back into the hands of a red-robed woman. There was a flash of red in her eyes, which slowly dimmed. Looking around, she was about to step over the black cake. Suddenly, he stopped in his tracks.

"Quiet?"

She turned her head and looked at the dark shadows on her right.

"it's me."

A man in a red robe with his head and face wrapped in a hood came out slowly. (to be continued ~^~)