Chapter 259 Searching for Qin Hu, Markers, Five-Claw Footprints

"This place is almost exactly like the real world..."

"It's even more realistic than the AR game I played before."

A young deputy commander of the regiment walking behind couldn't help but speak when he saw the hell-like world in front of him.

Lin Feng looked back at him. This guy was younger than himself. He was Shen Jie's classmate, only seventeen or eighteen years old, and a heavy game fan.

Due to his obsession with killing monsters and upgrading, this guy's promotion speed was not slow. He became one of the first ten warriors to be promoted to the late stage of the second stage, and was soon promoted to the deputy commander of the gene regiment.

However, Lin Feng was also shocked by the overly realistic End of the World in front of him, so he replied:

"This is a hundred times more real than the Trial World, and the details are of course beyond reproach."

"It's just like a small copy in an ordinary online game, and the same as a 3A stand-alone masterpiece. One is just a quick cutscene for brushing experience and equipment, and the other is to build an immersive experience of the real world..."

As he said this, Lin Feng suddenly remembered Qin Hu's death, and his tone became low:

"So, such a real touch, even breathing is like being there..."

"If an accident happens later, the pain caused by the injury will be stronger and more real than the previous artistic conception world, and the touch will be a hundred times magnified!"

When Lin Feng said the other side, the people behind him remembered Qin Hu's death and shuddered in their hearts.

The deputy head of the regiment who had just spoken turned pale, and quickly put away his admiration and became cautious.

At this moment, Long Yi, who was walking in front of the crowd, turned back and added another knife after hearing the conversation between the two:

"Compared to these, you should worry about another thing."

Lin Feng frowned slightly, a little puzzled.

Ling Yi looked into the distance with deep eyes:

"Because the reality of the Land of the End is higher, whether it is the spine worms condensed by the state of mind or the second-level peak tiger spine worms that enter the trial, their strength will be stronger than the previous trial world!"

"Not to mention the king spine worms in the volcano, the peak tiger spine worms participating in the trial, because the Land of the End has a higher tolerance, so the strength of the peak tiger spine worms that enter the trial after scanning can be about 70% to 80% of the original."

"And you, probably only half, and this is the real challenge..."

"They will regard us as invaders and competitors, and kill them here together."

"But they won't think of it like before, everyone works together to help each other, here , the law of survival of the fittest has been implemented to the end. Even when facing ordinary first-level black-backed insects, don't take it lightly. "

"Lin Feng and I entered it with the peak strength of the second level. In the end of the land, we can barely deal with a second-level peak tiger-backed insect that starts the trial..."

"If you encounter more than two at the same time, you can only fight and retreat and escape back to the trial world."

"Although it is unlikely to encounter peak tiger-backed insects continuously in this land of killing, you must also be prepared to flee and face death at any time."

Hearing what Ling Yi said, everyone immediately understood that they came from a lower-level trial world, and their strength level was much weaker than the end of the land in front of them.

Here, any peak tiger-backed insect can kill them and cause great losses.

Realizing this, everyone has become more cautious and careful, always looking around and observing the surroundings.

In case of tiger-backed insects attacking.

Soon, everyone followed the steps of Long Yi and came to the middle area of ​​the scarlet killing. There were less than ten kilometers away from the blood-colored volcano that was more than four thousand meters high.

The killing energy nearby was so strong that it penetrated into the black obsidian on the surface, and infected these originally opaque black glass crystals into blood-colored translucent red crystals.

It looked extremely strange and bizarre in response to the fire clouds in the sky.

The killing volcano in the distance was already in an eruption state. At the edge of the pit on the top of the mountain, the hot bright yellow magma slowly flowed down along the gap.

On the mountain, it gradually cooled to dark red.

If you want to solve the king spine worm, you must first endure the high temperature of hundreds of degrees on the volcano, and always pay attention to the hot magma flowing around like water.

Just when everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them, a group of tiger spine worms of 20 to 30 meters in size suddenly crawled out of a pit in front.

Their strength level is in the early and middle stages of the second stage, not too strong, and they are artistic conception spine worms refreshed here.

In order to avoid exposing his whereabouts, Long Yi carefully led the group to hide in a crack several meters deep, using spiritual energy to cover up the breath of everyone.

Then he turned back and whispered to everyone:

"The killing state covers hundreds of square kilometers. If we continue like this, we have to avoid the tiger-backed insect swarms from all directions and look for Qin Hu's figure everywhere..."

"Maybe more than ten days, we can't find any trace."

"Do you have any other ways?"

Everyone looked at each other and fell into deep thought.

Lin Feng looked back at the road the group had walked:

"If Qin Hu died in this end place, would he be resurrected at the starting point? That is, the edge of the state of mind that we just passed through the spiritual tunnel and arrived at..."

"If so, we just need to wait a little longer in the same place, maybe we can meet Qin Hu who is reborn again."

Hearing Lin Feng's speculation, Long Yi shook his head:

"It's difficult. If he had been infected by the power of the law before his second death, or was eroded by the killing scene in front of him, to the point where he completely turned into an irrational spineworm, then he would be reborn after death. The location will be randomly refreshed in the place covered by the killing mood.”

"Usually at the edge, but at least not at the initial point we arrive at."

"Because the space there is not stable, the influence of the laws of the End is the weakest there. Generally, rebirth requires an energy-stable environment to provide conditions for aggregation."

Lin Feng frowned slightly. In this case, it was really difficult to determine where Qin Hu might appear.

The killing atmosphere here is hundreds of times stronger than the killing mood formed by Shen Jie alone. Even if Qin Hu can resist a little, it is absolutely inevitable that he will be assimilated to the killing mood and lose his mind.

Now facing such a vast and dangerous end of land, how to find traces of Qin Hu...

After Chi Yi rejected Lin Feng's suggestion, everyone fell into deep thought for a long time.

Until one of the members from Qin Hu's staff seemed to remember something and said:

"General Qin's willpower is very strong. Even if he enters the End of the World, it is unlikely that he will be affected by the killing atmosphere here and lose his mind instantly."

"Before he falls into confusion and loses himself, he will definitely realize when his mind is clear that he must leave some traces and traces to guide the next trialist who will die and be reborn in the trial world."

"Lead us to find him! Join him!"

After hearing what this soldier said, everyone's eyes lit up, and they all obviously thought it made sense.

Lin Feng immediately nodded and said:

"That's right! Before the apocalypse broke out, Qin Hu was an extremely professional special forces soldier. The awareness of detection and counter-detection developed through years of training has become deeply ingrained. It is impossible not to think that he would leave clues to guide the resurrected people behind."

"But he probably didn't guess that we would all come here to look for him."

Zhiyi hummed and agreed:

"Okay, let's go back to the resurrection point and have a look, and then move around in this area. I think even if Qin Hu is resurrected, out of caution, he won't run too far."

"After all, it seems now that the resurrection point of the fragmented space is obviously safer than the foot of the volcano full of spineworms."

"If he is still alive and has not encountered any accidents, he must still be around!"

In this way, after everyone came to the conclusion after discussion, under the leadership of Lin Feng and the other two, they left the middle area covered by the killing concept, took another road, and returned to the resurrection point.

On this return trip, everyone no longer followed behind, but lined up in a row, looking around at the terrain far and near, not missing any detail or corner.

Finally, in the shattered space near the Scarlet Killing and Invasion, near the original resurrection point, a careful member found a triangular saw blade with complete rules on the ground.

The palm-sized saw blade is made of the giant jaw material of the tiger spine insect, and its shape and appearance are exactly the same as the tiger-tooth chain sword in everyone's hands.

Qin Hu's genetic warriors are also equipped with the tiger-tooth chain sword developed by Ding Chenghai, but in terms of attributes, they are not as powerful as the one synthesized by Lin Feng.

In fact, the production process of tiger-tooth chain swords is not complicated and sophisticated. It is just that a large number of basic industries in the Jincheng base have been moved to the rear. This has kept the output of the Salvation Army's chain swords at a low level.

In the battle to defend the capital in the north, the Quartet Corps could mass-produce tiger-tooth chain swords as long as they collected tiger spine insect corpses.

Although it is not possible for every second-level awakened person to hold one, hundreds of mid- to late-level second-level melee elites can still assemble this powerful melee weapon.

So this time when they entered the world of artistic conception and conducted a trial, Qin Hu and his thirty-six genetic warriors were brought in together with the tiger-tooth chain swords they were equipped with after undergoing mental scanning.

Later in the trial world, after Lin Feng upgraded, he had transformed into a lv29 tiger-tooth chain sword.

With the subsequent attribute blessing, it can easily split the armor of the second-level peak tiger spine insect.

At this moment, the saw blade found in the hands of the team members obviously did not reach the sharpness of the 29th level saw blade. After Lin Feng took it, he also discovered that the texture of this saw blade came from a mid-level second-level tiger at most. Ridgeworm.

But the shape is very regular, and it cannot be forged by these crazy spineworms who only know how to fight.

After several confirmations, it was finally determined that the saw blade in the corner was left by Qin Hu!

Apart from a large-caliber hand cannon, it was also the only thing in his hand that could set an obvious mark.

Lin Feng put away the saw blade, looked around and said:

"Look again. Spinworms rarely come here. There should be other markers nearby."

Everyone scattered and searched everywhere.

At this time, Lin Feng saw the blood-colored earth infected by scarlet carnage, covered with a layer of black-red gray snow by volcanic ash falling all over the sky, like a decaying ruins...

Suddenly I remembered something and asked the man next to me:

"Wait a minute, you said before that in the trial world we are in, the flow of time is a thousand times faster than the outside world..."

"Then the final place in front of us is larger in scale and has more real laws..."

Zhiyi also realized something and immediately replied:

"Since the Land of the End has 10% of the scale of the Divine Realm, it stands to reason that the flow rate of time should be a hundred times different from that of the Trial World, which is one thousandth. Therefore, the flow rate of time here is the same as before. hundred times."

"We were delayed in the trial world for more than an hour..."

"So four days have passed in the Land of the End!"

"This thing was also left four days ago?!"

Lin Feng nodded, looking at the half-cut saw blade in his hand that was infected by the killing energy, and whispered with difficulty:

"In four days, even if Qin Hu has a strong will, he can't withstand the erosion of the killing state."

"Now he has either been deformed into a human-insect monster by the killing state, or has been reborn somewhere else."

"Even if we find the mark he left, the possibility of finding Qin Hu himself is very slim..."

However, before Lin Feng finished speaking, a nearby genetic warrior suddenly said in surprise:

"Everyone come here! I found it!"

The person who spoke was the team member who had just found the first saw blade with courage and carefulness.

When everyone walked in and took a look, it turned out that he had found another saw blade based on the direction pointed by the tip of the triangular saw blade just now.

"The tiger-toothed chain saw sword made by the Federation has a total of 24 saw blades, and usually 20 replacement saw blades are carried in the equipment bag to prevent any unexpected events."

Another soldier under Qin Hu explained, holding up the tiger-toothed chain saw sword in his hand.

Lin Feng and Long Yi looked at each other and put the conclusions of their previous conversation in their hearts.

After all, it has come to this point. Instead of telling everyone about this inference, it is better to take one step at a time and see if these saw blade marks can provide more clues.

If Qin Hu can really be found, there is no need to dampen everyone's enthusiasm.

So the group continued to move forward in the direction indicated by the tip of the saw blade, and soon came to the bottom of a boulder.

This boulder was covered with a thick layer of volcanic ash.

It seemed that there was no sign of activity at all.

But after a careful search by everyone, it was soon discovered that the bottom of the boulder dyed bloody by the killing mood...

There was a narrow pit half a meter wide, blocked by a piece of obsidian.

After everyone moved it away, there were obvious traces of excavation at the entrance of the pit.

"Qin Hu should have rested here before. After all, he was alone and couldn't rest and stand guard at the same time. He had to find a bunker to hide."

Thinking of Qin Hu struggling alone for several days, Lin Feng couldn't help but speak.

When he approached, he smelled a faint bloody smell coming from the cave entrance. Several people around him also smelled this unusual smell and frowned slightly.

Because this smell was not like the bloody smell that permeated this place, it had a strange smell of sulfur.

It was the smell of pure human blood.

The soldiers under Qin Hu were anxious and volunteered to get into the pit. In the end, they crawled out of the cave with only dozens of irregular Zerg armor plates.

Lin Feng took a look and saw that it should be the Zerg armor that grew on the surface of the genetic warrior in the assimilated form.

Obviously, this was when Qin Hu was still sane, out of fear of complete assimilation, so he tore off flesh and blood, like Shen Jie and Zhang Liying did, and pieces of insect armor grew on his skin to prevent the spread of the deformation.

At this moment, looking at the dried blood and flesh left on the back of the insect armor, everyone was more worried.

"Let's go, look around. If the shelter is still there, Qin Hu should be active around here."

After finding Qin Hu's camp, Lin Feng took a deep breath, stood up and looked around.

He led everyone to conduct a carpet search with the boulder pit as the center.

Not long after, a new discovery was made:

The deputy commander of the regiment who had previously lamented the end of the land and was too real, immediately called everyone over after observing the strange terrain somewhere.

When everyone gathered together, he pointed to the thick layer of volcanic ash and the broken stones in front of him, and said in a deep tone:

"There was a fight here, and General Qin was most likely one of the parties."

"Look, there are several red crystals nearby, and the appearance and degree of shattering are very different from those that fell naturally nearby. They were damaged by heavy blows during the fierce fight."

"Look here..."

As he said this, he half-crouched and stretched forward, and used his hands to wipe away the layer of volcanic ash that had fallen and accumulated on the surface.

The next moment, a bizarre and strange scene that made everyone hold their breath and their pupils tremble appeared!

On this obsidian surface, under the volcanic ash...

There appeared a claw mark that was half a meter long!

Through the broken obsidian that was deeply sunken, it can be seen that these huge claw marks, like human hands, have five long claws of different thicknesses and lengths...

And this is obviously not something that the spinal insects can leave!

At this moment, everyone present was stunned, until Lin Feng, with a look of doubt on his face, turned around and looked at Long Yi beside him:

"This is..."