High Above

A maze of subspace, a box garden deep somewhere.

In the rich atmosphere filled with the smell of barbecue, a flame burned in the center of the temporary camp made of soil and corpses.

The smell of barbecue was, of course, the smell of barbecue, but no one present wanted to know what kind of meat it was.

As for the fuel for the bonfire, in addition to the wood and blood vines temporarily found in the subspace maze, there are also many research reports that have lost their value after confirmation.

The ink-colored text on the research report used as fuel is gradually being engulfed by the firelight and turning into gray ash, but its eye-catching title is still clearly visible.

"Conquering Death: Artificial Souls Enter Clinical Trials"

Everyone in the Huaiguang Rescue Team was eating silently around the campfire to replenish their strength.

In the subspace filter, the flames are like a ball of shaking blood, giving people a wet and smelly feeling instead of warm light.

Actually, maybe that's true.

Since entering the subspace labyrinth, everything seems to have been distorted... As soon as the rescue team entered, they encountered two battles in a row. Although they were a little confused, with the strength and aura of the two temple executors, the team did not reduce their numbers and continued to fight in the war. With the help of doctors, several injured team members were quickly treated.

According to the reconnaissance of the subspace probe, they moved steadily towards the depths of the maze.

But as it went deeper, the intensity of the battle became more and more intense, to the point where there were multiple second-level phantom raids, which could only be resisted with hard power.

This is actually not difficult to solve - just look at the corpses smelling like barbecue at the feet of these rescue team members. You can tell that they are so powerful that even the third-level monsters may not be able to stop them, let alone the second-level monsters. Hold on to their progress...

Of course, the third level may be more difficult. It depends on whether it is the initial stage of the mental light body that has emerged, the intermediate level where the life spiritual energy has been awakened, or the advanced level where the inner light body has matured and merged with the life spiritual energy and can materialize a specific image.

You can still deal with it at the beginning level, but you have to run away from the intermediate level.

But the real problem is that some enemies cannot be discovered at all.

Even if a team member died because of this, they would not be discovered.

The atmosphere in the camp was quite dull. Shouguang wiped the two-handed heavy sword in his hand with a solemn expression, while Huijian closed his eyes and was meditating to recover from the load caused by spiritual energy on the mind and body.

There are a dozen people in the team, including three elves, five demi-humans, five humans and two dwarves. The two are dead, plus Captain Huijian and Vice-Captain Shuguang, there are fifteen people in total, which can basically be said to be Terra's international column.

In fact, this is also the largest team of Huaiguang supporters acting in their own name in Nanling and the Western Plains.

They had worked together and experienced many difficulties and obstacles... but in the end, they lost two good players inexplicably in the maze.

The elf archer Elesa is a top archer who can accurately hit an apple core from a distance of 700 meters. Her eyesight is extremely amazing. It is said that she has difficulty getting close to others because she can see mites on people's faces.

Ileisha mysteriously disappeared after a small-scale encounter. In the end, only her broken longbow was found. She apparently struggled for a while after the attack, but no one found out when and how she was attacked. died at the time.

The second victim was the cat-man Fife.

He is a natural stalker, and the blood of the Shadow Chameleon makes him invincible in any environment or venue. Fife was once a jewel thief, but was saved by Huaiguang during a natural disaster, so he changed his ways and decided to use his service to Huaiguang to repay all the treasures he had stolen in the past.

But his body soaked in poison was found in another small garden. In order to prevent the danger from causing further attrition, the Huaiguang rescue team did not even dare to recover his body, so they had to retreat to a relatively simple small garden and start to rest. And beware of possible dangers.

This incident exuded a strong and strange atmosphere from beginning to end. The two people who died were among the most keen ones in the team. They had experienced countless battles and cooperated with excellent players. They died in the battle and It's not difficult to explain, but dying quietly here is simply unreasonable.

As another tiger demi warrior Carlo said, even if ten of him died, Fav would not die. He has a natural premonition of danger, any attack, even a supersonic alchemical fire weapon , as long as it is aimed at him, he will know in advance and even instinctively avoid it.

Unless the attack comes from behind.

——This is the most serious accusation.

——There is a mole in the team.

When Captain Huijian gently asked the Khajiit samurai if he really thought so and who was the culprit, the samurai, who was rude on the surface but actually had a bad brain, suddenly got stuck - he was just venting his emotions instinctively. , never thought that this statement would cause the team to fall apart.

That's why the team's current mood is so dull.

[There is indeed a mole]

Through Huaiguang's internal communication channel, Huijian was talking to Redemption: [Caro ​​is right, Ileisha may have been plotted, but Fife cannot be attacked by the enemy... Only a close friend will attack. He died without noticing]

Shouguang nodded, her brows furrowed: [But this is too unbelievable. Most of our team have been fighting for Huaiguang for more than ten years, and in a place like the subspace maze, we have not yet completed the task and found it. Betrayal before rescuing the target...it’s not normal no matter how you look at it]

[Yingguang, what do you think? 】

She turned her head and asked her junior sister, the white-haired dragon nun Ying Guang.

[Someone must have been deceived. This should be caused by the spiritual energy of a mysterious and powerful subspace monster]

Sister Yingguang is also here. Compared with the dress when Ryan led her, she is now wearing silver light armor, holding a ruby ​​staff that can be used as a spear in one hand, and holding a shield in the other. She is the most beautiful person in Terra. Common clergy equipment.

She is also the core of this team and a member of the doctor. This keen nun uses the corner of her eye to look at everyone present inconspicuously: [Fife may relax his vigilance because the other party is a friend, but Ileisha generally does not allow others to come within two meters of her... This is obviously affecting her mind. It may even be that we are also affected, but we just don't know it.]

After these words came out, even the internal channel was silent for a while. The bloody flame heated the pure water in the pot, causing it to make a boiling gurgling sound.

But suddenly, Shouguang stood up.

"who is it?!"

The cow girl's angry roar was like thunder, causing the entire team to suddenly become energetic and start a battle formation.

But just as Atonement was roaring, there was a gunshot that exploded at the edge of the small garden!

boom! !

Accompanied by the explosive sound of firearms, the alchemical warhead propelled by high-purity source matter tore through the air, and with a shrill wind howl, it shot straight towards a human knight in the team!

Because it was too sudden and the speed of the bullet was too fast, no one could stop the shot for a while.

But the strange thing is that the knight who was regarded as the target behaved quite strangely - he obviously discovered the shot, and his shocked expression was so real, but his body moved slowly, as if he wanted to pretend that he could not hide. Drive like that.

But after an instant, his speed suddenly increased, his whole body twitched extremely unnaturally, and he dodged the bullet in an extremely twisted posture.

Bang!

The dodged alchemical bullet exploded, and what exploded was not a lethal alchemical gunpowder shock wave, but a layer of special 'matte powder'... This powder is similar to the dust of development and can easily reveal Some sublimates who are invisible and hiding do not have the 'highlighting mark' effect like the dust of development.

But it's enough.

The knight, who dodged the bullet in an extremely unnatural posture, suddenly let out an extremely vicious and angry roar after being covered in matte powder - and then, its entire body squirmed and transformed, turning into a mass of human flesh. Shapeshifter!