Swallowed Star: Drawing Talents

"Puff!"

Casually killing a beast soldier-level tiger mastiff, Yang Wu had already killed more than ten ordinary beast soldier-level monsters on the short hundred-mile journey from the supply base to the county town.

This section of road from the Northern Military Region to County Town 0231 is almost entirely wilderness, with many scattered beast soldier-level monsters, but very few beast general-level monsters.

"But, where is it?"

Yang Wu leaped onto the roof of the toll station, took out binoculars from his backpack, and looked towards City 068.

The view was filled with fields of weeds and gray, desolate mountain forests, with a tunnel along the highway near the city.

To confirm the location of the plant spirit, Yang Wu immediately ruled out the area from the supply base to County Town 0231.

This section of the road is mostly fields and close to the Northern Military Region, so if a large number of monsters gathered, it would not escape the military's satellite detection.

"Strange fragrance?"

Yang Wu jumped off the roof and walked along the highway towards City 068.

Three hours later.

In the dilapidated tunnel, Yang Wu kicked away the monster corpses under his feet. Monsters popped out of this tunnel from time to time, most of them weak beast soldier-level.

But he also encountered three elementary beast general-level monsters, and even a intermediate beast general-level monster.

Generally speaking, beast general-level monsters are generally huge, but there are also some smaller ones, such as cockroaches, rats, and spiders.

Before the Great Nirvana, these creatures were small, and even after mutating into beast general-level monsters, they were smaller than other monsters of the same level.

Killing the last beast soldier-level cockroach monster blocking the way, Yang Wu walked out of the tunnel and looked at the abandoned city close at hand, feeling a little helpless.

He was almost at City 068, but he hadn't smelled any strange fragrance, though there was plenty of stench along the way.

The simulation had two very direct clues.

First: a strange fragrance.

Second: a strange medicine resembling a black wood branch.

He couldn't count on the strange fragrance clue, as the time difference was more than two months, and it didn't match up at all.

Also, if there had been a strange fragrance during this time, it would have been discovered by other martial artists long ago, and it wouldn't be his turn in the simulation.

Suddenly, Yang Wu remembered the level three rat tide that erupted in County Town 0231 in the original story, which was caused by the rat beast leaders fighting for the plant spirit, and launching it in anger after failing.

That means that the plant spirit was eventually taken away by someone else, perhaps other monsters, or perhaps human martial artists.

"God of War Lu Gang?"

The original story did not mention the real cause of Lu Gang's death, saying that three God of War-level martial artists entered the wilderness when the rat tide broke out, and Lu Gang was heavily surrounded by the endless rat tide, sinking into the ocean of rats.

The rat tide's desperate and crazy attack caused Lu Gang, who had intermediate God of War-level strength, to fall and his body to be lost.

But this is not right, with Lu Gang's intermediate God of War-level strength, the rat tide's speed would definitely not be able to catch up if he wanted to escape after taking the plant spirit.

As for risking going deep into the center of the rat tide because of greed for the plant spirit.

Yang Wu can only say that although the plant spirit has a strong attraction for intermediate God of War, it is not enough for him to risk certain death to fight for it.

Someone like Yang Wu would never risk his life to fight for a mere plant spirit. Taking this risk is not as good as befriending Luo Feng.

Excluding tunnels and fields, the remaining are several mountain forests.

In the simulation, after Yang Wu seized the plant spirit, the exasperated rat beast leader launched a beast tide towards the nearest city, County Town 0231.

Then, the wild mountain forest closest to County Town 0231 is very likely to be the location of the plant spirit.

In fact, satellite recording and shooting are not as mysterious and powerful as ordinary people imagine.

Such as thick clouds, smog, buildings, mountain forests, tunnels, etc., these will more or less limit satellite detection.

There are obstructions in the mountain forest, which may not be able to cover up the movement of several high-level beast general-level monsters gathering, but this is not worth the military region mobilizing satellite resources.

Each satellite of the military has its own purpose, either to monitor those king-level monsters or to detect possible beast tides.

After locking the target.

Yang Wu got up and immediately headed towards the destination, but when he arrived, he was dumbfounded!

This... how is he supposed to find it?

The mountain forest in front of him stumped Yang Wu.

How is he supposed to find it?

After thinking for a moment, he gritted his teeth and decided to use the stupidest and most primitive method—

Carpet search!

Without further ado, Yang Wu carried his backpack, held the Broken Army spear, and went straight into the mountain forest, searching bit by bit according to the divided areas.

Although the mountain forest is not as dangerous as the abandoned city, it is much more dangerous than those wilderness fields.

However, this depends on the terrain. In some large mountains, not to mention lord-level, even king-level monsters are quite numerous.

In less than half an hour, Yang Wu killed an intermediate beast general, two elementary beast generals, and more than twenty beast soldier-level monsters.

After a slaughter, many monsters were finally frightened and fled. Although it was a carpet search, Yang Wu would not be so stupid as to search bit by bit.

As long as he determines the approximate range of the plant spirit, Yang Wu is not afraid of it suddenly growing legs and running away. Due to racial restrictions, the plant spirit can never autonomously escape its birthplace for life.

After the plant transforms into a plant spirit, it already has simple awareness of attack and self-preservation. When it feels that its life is threatened, it will inevitably protect itself at all costs.

Either it has attack ability itself, or it can confuse other monsters, or it can hide itself with all its strength...

And what Yang Wu has to do is to create chaos and create a sense of crisis for it bit by bit.

"Rumble..."

The branches are weeping, the mountain forest is shaking, the earth is shaking, and thousands of monsters are running for their lives in the mountain forest, creating a huge movement as if a strong earthquake has occurred.

Behind them, Yang Wu was slowly driving them with a Broken Army spear. The slower monsters were instantly killed by him.

These thousands of monsters seem terrifying in number, but in fact, most of them are beast soldier-level monsters, with only a few elementary beast general-level monsters.

And the intermediate beast general and above monster lords were all taken care of by Yang Wu as a priority and killed in the first time.

Therefore, the remaining beast soldiers and beast generals are not subordinate to each other. If not, Yang Wu would not dare to drive the monsters so boldly.

"Hey, I have to add some fuel!"

Seeing that it was almost dark, but there was still no sign of the plant spirit, if he didn't speed up, he would have to stay and work overtime.

"Bang!"

Yang Wu suddenly accelerated, and a beast soldier-level monster running at the rear of the herd was instantly swept away by the spear and fell into the herd rushing forward.

"Roar... Roar..."

Under this stimulation, the herd scrambled around even more frantically, and some unlucky elementary beast soldiers were trampled to death by the beast general-level monsters before they could react.

For a time, the mountain forest shook more violently.

"Haha, found you!"

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