I practice cultivation cautiously in a strange world

The situation in the city made Chen Lin frown.

According to the information from the Presbyterian Church, this team asking for help was a distress call sent back last night, and then the Presbyterian Council assigned a support team, which he was responsible for leading.

And he didn't delay, he rushed over immediately after receiving the mission.

According to the request for help, the other party said that it was relying on the formation to support itself, but now there is no human figure and no monster. Could it be that it has been eaten by the monster and the monster has left?

After thinking about it, Chen Lin took out a few more foundation-building puppets and entered the city together with the crow puppets. They explored all directions carefully, not even the corners or the well-preserved buildings. Pass.

In the end nothing was found.

"Captain, what should I do?"

The vice-captain of the team is a middle-aged female cultivator named Tan Lingyu, who is in the early stage of Jindan cultivation and was promoted only a year ago, so she always followed Chen Lin's lead and never raised any opinions.

Chen Lin thought for a while, took out a communication talisman, and after stimulating it, described the situation here and sent it back to the base camp.

It's none of their business that they can't find anyone, but they probably won't let them go back like this, and will probably delegate other tasks.

However, after receiving the summons from the base camp, Chen Lin was shocked.

The other party actually said that the rescue team just sent out another distress message, saying that they were about to be unable to support themselves and that they were in urgent need of support.

And the address is correct, it’s in Crystal Fairy City!

Chen Lin stood up, looked at the abandoned city in front of him from a distance again, and frowned.

The base camp will definitely not lie, so there are only two possibilities. One is that the team asking for help made a mistake and thought it was in Crystal Fairy City, but it was actually somewhere else. However, this possibility is very low.

There are only so many fairy cities in the northern world of immortality, and the leader of the rescue team is still an early-stage Jindan monk, so it is impossible for such a simple thing to go wrong.

In that case, there is only one possibility left.

There is something wrong with this place!

Thinking of this, he withdrew his gaze from the city, glanced at the team members behind him, and suddenly pointed at a bearded late-stage foundation-building monk and said: "Huang Yuan, it's time for you to make a contribution, take this puppet from me. Come on, let’s go explore the city!”

"yes!"

Lian Shaobeard had a fierce look on his face, but he looked very respectful to Chen Lin. He immediately agreed upon hearing the words, took the crow puppet, and headed straight for the city.

Chen Lin looked satisfied when he saw this.

This guy is a meritorious criminal. Some time ago, he killed three monks in succession in the city due to grudges. In the past, such crimes would have been punished on the spot, but now there is an urgent need for manpower, and the opponent is very strong. Then he was allowed to join the fighting team and perform meritorious service.

Originally he thought he would be a thorn in the side, but he didn't expect that since he took over the team, he seemed to be very honest and did whatever he was told.

When the opponent entered the city, Chen Lin observed through the puppet's vision.

Although he had just used the foundation-building puppet to investigate, the puppet was a tool without flesh and blood after all. Some monsters or formations only responded to flesh and blood, and the puppet's observation ability was also limited, so he had to send monks to explore it again. .

Crystal City is quite large and each exploration takes a lot of time. They left the city in the morning and it was already evening.

However, after the Crow Puppet was upgraded, its night vision ability became stronger, which did not affect the surveillance.

Lu Yuan did not do anything unusual. He completely obeyed the command and checked street after street. Every time he checked a place, he would have the crow puppet follow him and never leave his sight.

This is a man who knows what's appropriate.

Time passed little by little, and the sky slowly became dark.

Huang Yuan's exploration is coming to an end, but there is no new discovery.

Chen Lin could only tell the other party to return and prepare to take the team back to the city. If the superiors didn't believe it, let them send others over.

However, at this moment, he felt his eyes darken and suddenly lost sight of the Crow Puppet!

He was startled and hurriedly looked in the direction of the city, but the distance was too far and the sky was completely dark, so he could only see an outline.

Suddenly, Chen Lin felt a strange rhythm coming to him, causing the silver light particles in his soul to fluctuate at the same time, and then the rhythm disappeared.

While he was wondering, the deputy captain Tan Lingyu beside him suddenly spoke in a disdainful tone.

"Captain Chen, you are too cowardly. You have been hiding since you came here, either using puppets or asking team members to explore. What is so scary about this mere abandoned city? If I had led the team, we would have rushed in. Got it!"

Chen Lin was stunned. The other party had always been low-key and silent. Why did his personality suddenly change?

He glanced at the other party warily, and was stunned for a moment, then slowly backed away, holding the Xuanwu Shield in his hand.

At this moment, Tan Lingyu squinted her eyes, sneered with her mouth tilted, and looked dissatisfied and dissatisfied. This was exactly the image she had after being controlled by that weird thing in Kaiyuan City!

Then, he glanced at the other team members, who all had the same sideways sneer and disapproval.

Chen Lin was horrified.

Unexpectedly, everyone would fall into the trap without realizing it. You must know that his team members are all foundation-building monks, and Tan Lingyu is at the golden elixir stage!

At the beginning, the weird guy in Kaiyuan City could only control Qi training monks and foundation-building monks, and he could cut off the red thread, but this guy can even control the golden elixir monks, and he is many times more powerful.

Even he would have been hit if it weren't for the automatic defense of the silver light particles in his soul.

Seeing that his subordinates only expressed dissatisfaction with him and had no intention of attacking yet, Chen Lin took precautions while observing his surroundings.

But no abnormalities were found, nor was the strangeness that controlled them found.

Suddenly, his expression changed and he took out a small bottle from the storage bag.

Open the mouth of the bottle and quickly put a drop of the liquid inside on each eye.

This is the Ming and Qing Spiritual Water, but it is not the bottle given by Yu Yuehai. The bottle given by the other party has been used up long ago. He refined it himself through the formula in the Qi Luck Alchemy Manual.

However, I never used it after refining it. At this time, I suddenly thought of it.

Mingqing Lingshui dripped into his eyes, Chen Lin looked around again, a look of shock suddenly appeared on his face.

I saw that the entire sky above the city was shrouded by a huge hazy shadow. Countless familiar red lines fell from the shadow and fell into the city like red rain. Only a few dozen of them reached their side, pulling them along. On the heads of Tan Lingyu and others.

Moreover, these red lines are thick and large, far from the thin lines like those in Kaiyuan City.

It can be seen that although it is the same kind of weirdness, this one is much stronger than the one in Kaiyuan City. It may be the same one, but its level has increased over the years.

While Chen Lin was wondering, the huge shadow in the sky seemed to move, and then a red line thicker than his thumb came to the top of his head in an instant, and penetrated into his body without giving him any chance to react.

His body stiffened, his whole body exuded an evil aura, and he couldn't help but squint and sneer.

But immediately the silver light particles in the soul began to vibrate, and the body felt like a boiling pot, and the two forces began to clash.

Fortunately, Chen Lin had refined part of the Soul Refining Pill in the past few months, and the number of silver light particles in his soul increased. Finally, the evil aura was dispersed, and the red line of light slowly extinguished.

Chen Lin did not dare to stay where he was, so he took out his golden ax and used all his strength, sweeping across the red line above the heads of the team members.

No matter whether it was successfully cut off or not, he shouted: "The situation has changed, retreat to the top of Qingguang Mountain to gather!" Then he activated his thunder escape technique and disappeared in place.

After escaping all the way, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the weird thing didn't release any more red lines on him.

But he didn't dare to be careless and continued to use his escape skills until he reached the place he mentioned, the top of Qingguang Mountain.

This place is far enough away from Crystal Fairy City. Unless the weird thing leaves the top of Crystal Fairy City, it is impossible to attack again. Chen Lin landed on the top of the mountain and dropped two more drops of Mingqing Lingshui. While observing carefully, he waited anxiously.

I don't know if the pseudo-lingbao can cut off the red lines of those team members. If it can't be cut off, it will be difficult for him to do business when he goes back.

It is normal for people to die or be injured when going on a mission, but if all the team members died, and only one captain returned unscathed, it was unjustifiable, and a punishment was inevitable.

So he decided that if everyone died, then he would not return to the city for the time being and find a hidden place to hide for a while. He would go back when the Silver Fairy came back.

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw streaks of escaping light approaching from far away, and then the figures of Tan Lingyu and several late-stage foundation-building monks appeared first and landed on the top of the mountain.

"Captain, what's going on? What happened?"

Tan Lingyu looked confused, as if she had no memory of what had just happened.

Chen Lin grinned. This woman was really good at pretending. Fortunately, he thought she was a weak woman with no independent opinions. She followed her instructions all the way and looked honest and obedient. Unexpectedly, she turned out to be different from what she said.

Although people who are led by the red line may speak unpleasantly, they speak the truth.

"It's nothing, let's talk about it later."

He didn't show anything on his face. He responded to the other party and then looked behind him.

After a while, several more team members appeared.

But that was all, no one else came.

Chen Lin counted them and found that there were only about twenty people, which was more than half the number!

His face suddenly turned ugly.

He didn't do anything, just observed outside the city, but he lost so many team members. This was because his soul mutated and resisted the invasion of the red line, otherwise the entire army would have been annihilated.

The monster is too powerful and it is unrealistic to rescue them again. Their mission this time can only be unsuccessful.

After thinking about it, Chen Lin took out another communication talisman, explained the situation, and then waited for instructions from the command office.