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Chapter 332 The Eye Behind the Passage

Plot zero in the ocean of information.

The map that originally clearly recorded the structure between layers was now more unreliable than ever before. The structure inside the plot was no longer the space that people were familiar with. Almost in an instant after the chaos brought about by the sudden intensified space vibration, after the dizziness caused by the sinking of consciousness subsided, people found that the world in front of them seemed to become weird. When they found that something was wrong and wanted to leave the plot, they found that they could no longer find a way out.

But this area is not a shelter, not before and not now. Black Horn and his companions have not yet reached Plot Zero, and the monsters are obviously not the understanding type. They will not turn a blind eye just because this is a dark area for treating and controlling the infected. In this blue-gray world, hunters composed of various objects either form groups to attack the entrenched human camps, or go alone to search for and test beacons.

They have no life, and broken limbs cannot stop them from executing the "instructions" they have received. The effectiveness of physical means is extremely weak, not to mention that their limbs themselves are not easily destroyed by ordinary physical attacks.

The street light flickered for a moment and then went out. The lamppost quietly changed in the dim environment. Soil, asphalt, bricks and stones... like strange waves knotted under the silent sea surface, this new form was silent, standing as before, but no longer emitting light.

Soon, its target was within its attack range, and the hunter, without breathing, suddenly pounced!

The ghost running on the strange gray street used inertia to hit the monster that suddenly attacked from the side with a horizontal shield strike. The force was so great that half of the monster's head was shattered, but it stabilized its center of gravity in a strange manner. The ghost clan heavy armor did not hesitate. He had experienced the power of these monsters before and did not overestimate his own strength to engage in meaningless head-on confrontation. While clearing the road, he ran forward again, but the man's face was still solemn. He couldn't remember when the few people got separated. It seemed that they lost their way after taking a step in an extremely ordinary walk. It was not uncommon for him to be separated from his teammates during a mission, but what made him uneasy was that he lost something.

"...Who were the people who acted with me?" Heijiao only remembered that apart from Bai Ge and Ye Dao, he couldn't remember the others...

"Is it some new type of drug? What is Casimir doing..."

Sweat was oozing from his palms, and he had a vague feeling that this time he was in big trouble. He had to hurry to Bai Ge to prevent Bai Ge from being isolated and helpless at the worst moment.

He still remembered where he was going, Plot Zero, but the drastic change in the terrain now made the advantage of remembering the target useless.

At this time, a pillar of white flame rose into the sky from a certain direction. Hei Jiao suddenly felt that his five senses had become much clearer. His eyes narrowed slightly under the mask. He recognized that this was Bai Ge's Originium skill. He no longer hesitated, swung his shield hard to beat away the chasing monster, and rushed to the direction where the flame pillar rose.

But before he could run a few blocks, several figures appeared, but they were not dangerous monsters. Heijiao stopped and his expression became more solemn.

"Operator Blackhorn of Rhodes Island, you are not needed on the battlefield over there. Please stop and continue with your original goal."

Heijiao did not respond, but just raised his shield. Not knowing whether the other party was a potential enemy, he was already considering the worst consequences and mobilized the danger-sensing muscles that had not been used for a long time.

A few people noticed his vigilance, looked at each other, nodded, shook their heads and raised their hands to show that they had no hostility, but they had no intention of changing their target. Without any basis of trust, they did not force Hei Jiao to believe, but chose to step back and put an object similar to a small box on the ground:

"The situation over at Plot Zero is terrible. This little thing can help you find Plot Zero. It will heat up if you find it in the right direction. Good luck."

Heijiao did not negotiate rashly, but the other party did not make any further explanation after putting down the things. He just stared at him and had no intention of letting him go.

"Plot Zero..." Black Horn looked at the flame column worriedly, then looked at the others, "You have no evidence, I can't trust you."

"It doesn't matter. We are only responsible for conveying information and following orders. The director said that you can't die. She can't break her promise."

"Think carefully, is it that young man with great potential who needs your help, or is it the weak people who are struggling to survive in Plot Zero who need your helping hand?"

"..."

Somewhere in the sea of ​​information.

Unlike Heijiao, Huang and Yedao successfully reunited and were searching for the location of Plot Zero. But the problem was that their memories were also problematic. Yedao forgot his name, code name, and the organization he belonged to. Huang forgot how to use his weapon, and also couldn't remember who else was in the team. She only remembered that the captain was Baige. When Yedao stopped them, both of them were confused.

"Yado, why are you here?"

"Huang, who is 'Yedao'?" Yedao was more unlucky than Huang. He encountered many monsters. He looked a little embarrassed at the moment, and his clothes were torn.

"Ah? Isn't your code name Yato?"

"My code name...what's my name again..." Ye Dao was a little confused, but her years of combat training allowed her to quickly adapt to the current situation. She knew that something was not right with her now, but she still remembered that she was going to Plot Zero with her companions.

"Huang, listen to me, something is wrong here. We are in the same team. You still remember where we are going, right?"

Ye Dao looked at Huang, and as they stared at each other through the masks, they both said "Plot Zero" at the same time.

"Okay." Huang trusted Ye Dao very much. She herself realized that something was wrong with the current situation. Although she was not careful enough, she was not so careless as to forget who her teammates were. Now she couldn't figure out what was going on no matter how hard she tried. That meant something happened that was beyond their planned risk.

"We have to find Bai Ge and the others quickly..."

"You still remember Bai Ge?" Ye Dao asked in surprise. Just now she asked Huang Shuang, Ye Xinhuo and their names but the latter knew nothing about them.

"Right, right? Bai Ge led the team?" Huang felt a little unconfident when asked.

"It was indeed him who led the team. I also remember it was him."

The two of them were very keenly aware of the strangeness in this. When they were thinking about the connection between forgetting and memory, a silver bell-like voice chuckled from somewhere out of their sight. The fingertips touched, and at this moment, the thoughts related to Ling Dengxian were infected with a darkness, and irritability and suspicion spread like weeds layer by layer.

His affairs are not affected...

Is it because he is special enough, or is it because he is the one who started it all?

Black vines grew wildly in the sea of ​​information, touching the border, and were bitten by countless prying eyes.

Weird things are surging outside the information sea, appearing from nothing, and enchanting shapes are beginning to stir.

It was at this moment that the second pillar of pure white flame broke through the air. The howling white flame storm soared into the sky like a giant white bird spreading its wings. The tip of the flame burned the sky, and the gloomy blue-gray world in the sea of ​​information was briefly illuminated.

All the captured beacons looked up and saw the unusual column of flame.

The evil demons that were waiting for an opportunity whistled and scattered, and the idea of ​​finding a channel to invade was temporarily extinguished, but they did not leave. Instead, they derived more "hands" and "eyes", bringing with them waves of invisible whistling storms that passed through the cracks in the sea of ​​information.

The flames were a little weak, and Ling Dengxian, who was standing in the open area, felt a little tired. The white flames embraced the crown like feathers, and while exuding a hint of coolness, there was also a hidden sense of exhaustion. He looked at the nightmare beside him and asked, "Is this enough?"

"Wait a moment..." Planster stared at the instrument panel in his hand, and he breathed a sigh of relief after a moment, "Well, the evil demon should not try to disrupt the situation again in the short term."

"Why are there evil demons in this sea of ​​information?" Ling had experienced the horror of evil demons in the far north tundra. Although the white flame had a strong restraining effect on them, what he needed to really threaten those strange existences that spread like mountains and covered like a dome was still this white gilded crown hidden in the deepest part.

He never understood why this thing, which had nothing to do with the Black Crown, made Xiaoxie call him "the Demon King who never existed".

He had nothing to do with Wang, just as Ling Dengxian should have nothing to do with those strange creatures and extraordinary enemies.

He had many opportunities to choose. He should have been lucky enough to live an ordinary and less dangerous life as the little person he longed for.

He shouldn't have to face these enemies who were beyond his ability to handle.

Maybe that's exactly what happened to Bai Guan, because of his persistence and unwillingness, he was "traded" by Xiao Xie, and when facing a super-powerful enemy, he became this absurd white devil.

"The evil demons exist in the subspace, and are everywhere. It's only because something went wrong in the North that they invaded our world in that way, and the Information Sea doesn't reject their information." Planster quickly found Ling Dengxian after he returned to the Information Sea, "Confirm again, do you feel the white flame touching the barrier of the Information Sea?"

"Yeah, it's very thick, but the white flame can penetrate it."

"I will convey a node map to you through the Originium technique later. Seize the nodes I marked and open a path back to reality for all the beacons in the sea of ​​information."

"Did your people do what we agreed on?" Ling Dengxian felt the pressure of the sea of ​​information and his breathing became deeper and deeper. Bai Jin, who was standing by, looked at Ling Dengxian, whose face had changed, and felt that he was a strange person.

During this period, although Ling Dengxian, whom she met, was often unreliable and not very gentlemanly, he had many minor flaws while also maintaining a thorny gentleness. He hurt her while making promises to her, and these memory scenes came together to form the living "Ling Dengxian" in her cognition.

At this moment, Ling Dengxian, who was covered in white flames, gave her an incomparable sense of security, but his strange look made her feel only unknown anger and aloofness.

Not like that jerk who sticks to reality.

"We have found the location of Plot Zero, have determined the location of all your team members, and have informed them to go to Plot Zero - this is all we can do in the current situation."

"...Thanks." Ling Dengxian relaxed his brows slightly.

"Well, take it. My Originium skills are a bit aggressive, but I think it's nothing to you." Planster's purple-red eyes flashed, and black-red mist suddenly rose. The platinum pupils at the side suddenly shrank, and a hint of "fear" emerged in his heart.

Handling fear is full of danger.

Ling Dengxian closed his eyes and accepted the information that reached his consciousness through the medium of fear. With his cooperation and Planst's control, such fear did not pose any threat at all, but only made him feel a little uncomfortable.

"Then... come on." He whispered, and the white flames that were ready to go surged out like the wings of a bird or beast, expanding a piece of space. Then, white flame chains spread out, sank into the space of the sea of ​​information, and found the "door" to reality.

"found it--"

The flames roared, and a path was opened up from under the burning sky. However, when Ling Dengxian, feeling relieved, raised his head, he was stunned for a moment.

A huge vortex filled with evil aura was slowly surging above Cavaleliaki. As if it could feel his gaze, the center of the air flow vibrated slightly, and then an enchanting "eye" opened, and its densely distributed pupils emitted a spine-chilling hissing sound, staring at him across the sea of ​​information and reality.

"What is this?!" Ling Dengxian felt the overwhelming murderous intent.