Chapter 22

Late night.

A modified armored vehicle and two buses drove out of Anding District and headed toward the dangerous area that everyone avoided.

On the car.

Li Yi and Zhang Gao were specially divided into a group under the care of Xu Ming, and the leading Spirit Medium cultivator was a man about thirty years old. He was biting a cigarette, revealing the dullness peculiar to middle-aged men.

"You two haven't opened the Spirit Medium yet, and your eyes can't see many things, so after entering the dangerous area later, listen to my arrangements for everything, don't run around, pay attention to avoiding some special areas. The route planned by Yang Yi Long is very safe. They often enter and exit the dangerous area and almost nothing will happen. People who often work for Yang Yi Long know that those who give up this opportunity are a pity. By the way, my name is Li Tao, you can call me Tao Ge." This Spirit Medium cultivator said.

"We are not newcomers who don't understand anything, Tao Ge rest assured." Zhang Gao said with a smile.

Tao Ge nodded: "That's best. Let me remind you one more thing. If you really encounter danger, don't care about anything, run away immediately. No one will pursue your mistakes, and Yang Yi Long is not that kind of narrow-minded person. He is generous and has a big heart, and won't care about such things."

"Thanks Tao Ge for your care, I thought so before coming to participate in this task, we small roles are just here to mix salary, run if something happens." Zhang Gao said.

Li Yi was silent on the side, just listening quietly.

Tao Ge smoked and said: "My strength is not much higher than yours. I have to run if I encounter danger. But Yang Yi Long didn't intend for us to contribute this time to the dangerous area. What I can do is act as a camera to observe the situation around."

"He wants our eyes as Spirit Medium people, that's all."

After finishing, he pointed to his eyes.

In the dim carriage, his eyes were also glowing like the Lao Ya and the mysterious woman Li Yi met at the beginning.

"So my task is to stare at the movement of an area and report the situation up, that's all."

Tao Ge said: "Unlike you, you earn 800,000 for this trip, and I earn 1.2 million for this trip. Just for personnel configuration, Yang Yi Long spent tens of millions. It can be seen that he must have gains this time."

"If he really hunts an extraordinary creature, this bit of expense is not worth mentioning."

Li Yi suddenly thought of something and asked curiously: "Why do extraordinary creatures only stay in the dangerous area, won't they enter the city area?"

Tao Ge smiled, exhaled a puff of smoke, and then said: "You are wrong, it is not that extraordinary creatures stay in the dangerous area, but where that thing is, that is the dangerous area. Of course, extraordinary creatures will also enter the city area, but the probability is relatively small. Those things have territorial consciousness and will not change places at will. And the environment of our world is very complex now. Before extraordinary creatures confirm their position in the food chain in this world, they will not rashly expand their scope of activities."

"But in order to prevent it, when cultivators reach a certain realm, they will be forced to deal with some dangerous events and hunt extraordinary creatures. Last time Yang Yi Long ate a shriveled on a mission and almost folded in the dangerous area and couldn't come back. It was the friend next to him who risked his life to fish him back."

"Is that the woman wearing a special tight-fitting suit? Her eyes are very special, I noticed, they are green, and they are vertical pupils." Zhang Gao asked immediately.

Tao Ge nodded: "Not bad, it's her, her name is Qin Qing, and she is also a very strong cultivator. You also noticed her eyes, right? Green vertical pupils, tsk tsk, really scary. Scientifically speaking, the pupils of animals in nature are divided into three types: horizontal pupils, vertical pupils, and round pupils."

"Horizontal pupils appear more on herbivores, because horizontal pupils have a wide range of vision, can see the surrounding environment better, are convenient for discovering the enemy situation, and escape at any time, so most animals with horizontal pupils are at the low end of the food chain."

"But vertical pupils are different. The range of vision of vertical pupils is not large, but the accuracy is very high, which can improve the success rate of hunting. So generally only top hunters can evolve such eyes, such as crocodiles, poisonous snakes, and some extraordinary creatures in legends are also vertical pupils, such as Jiao, Qiu."

Zhang Gao felt a chill in his heart: "So, Qin Qing evolved vertical pupils, meaning she is at the predator level among humans, and we are prey to her?"

"Can be understood this way." Tao Ge nodded.

Zhang Gao asked again: "What about Yang Yi Long, why doesn't he have vertical pupils? His strength should also be very strong, and his degree of evolution should be higher than that Qin Qing."

Tao Ge glanced: "How do you know Yang Yi Long doesn't have vertical pupils? Do you believe that Yang Yi Long's pupils shrink after entering the 'hunting' state and immediately become vertical pupils? Every cultivator is an independently evolved individual, so everyone's evolution direction is different. It is not that it is not reflected that it is not evolved. Isn't nature also diverse in species?" 【22

"Brother Tao, what about those round pupils? Can you tell me about them?"

Li Yi asked curiously. He felt that this Brother Tao possessed a great deal of cultivation knowledge and was no simple person, so he humbly sought his guidance.

Brother Tao said: "We humans have round pupils. The vast majority of creatures with this type of eye are destined to be mediocre because such eyes can neither see broadly nor accurately. Therefore, creatures with round pupils lack both survival skills and hunting prowess. However, there are no absolutes in this world. When an individual's strength no longer relies on their eyes to gain an advantage, then such creatures are destined to be terrifyingly strong."

"Lions and tigers have round pupils. Their individual strength is too great, and they have no rivals in the natural world, so their eyes stopped evolving. Because when they hunt, they don't rely on their eyes, but on pure power."

"I see. Many thanks for the explanation, Brother Tao."

Li Yi was suddenly enlightened and felt he had learned a lot. As expected, an older cultivator is truly different.

While they were talking, the vehicle had already driven out of the urban area.

There were not even any streetlights on the surrounding roads; it was pitch black.

After driving for another two or three kilometers along this pitch-black abandoned highway, the vehicle came to a stop.

The road ahead had been deliberately blocked off. Concrete bollards were placed on the road to prevent vehicles from entering, and at the same time, various warning signs were set up on both sides of the road, all bearing danger slogans.

"Everyone out of the vehicle."

Someone said in a low, suppressed voice. Afterward, the vehicle engine was cut, and the doors were opened.

"Li Yi, Zhang Gao, you two follow me. Don't get lost. If you lose track of me, turn back and abandon this mission. You are both young; don't die in the danger zone out of confusion."

Brother Tao might look dull, but in reality, he was quite a good person and very considerate of the two newcomers, Li Yi and Zhang Gao.

"Understood." Li Yi nodded.

After everyone got out of the vehicle, they did not linger too long in the same spot. Each Spirit Medium led two cultivators and quickly departed from the road, not saying a single word during the process.

Brother Tao did the same, and he also headed rapidly in one direction.

Watching the crowd disperse, Li Yi understood in his heart that this mission had already begun. It was just that these people didn't know the specific details of the mission; only the cultivators who had activated their Spirit Medium could know, and the reason they didn't say anything beforehand was likely because they had signed a non-disclosure agreement.

"Pick up your speed. We need to reach the designated location within fifteen minutes."

In the night, Brother Tao was like a leopard, running at an extremely fast speed. Even when encountering obstacles in front of him, he leaped over them with ease. His agility was not at all like that of a middle-aged man around thirty.

Li Yi's physical fitness was also very high.

His figure moved rapidly through the abandoned road, and his footsteps were light, making almost no noise. Even while running at high speed, his breathing remained steady, and his eyes were glowing with a faint light at this moment, seeing everything in the dark night with perfect clarity.

Zhang Gao was slightly inferior, but his physical fitness was not bad either; he ran with power and had excellent endurance.

"Go around the front."

Brother Tao suddenly gave a reminder. Even though there was a spacious abandoned road ahead, he chose to detour, avoiding the easier path.

"Is there danger ahead?"

Zhang Gao asked in a low voice. In his line of sight, everything ahead was normal.

"Don't speak. That place back there is haunted."

Brother Tao's expression was extremely solemn. In his line of sight, that abandoned urban area was exceptionally eerie. Red lanterns were actually hanging on the streets, and red ribbons were floating between the buildings, as if they were holding some lively celebration. Moreover, vaguely, he could see some illusory human figures shuttling back and forth in the middle of the abandoned streets.

Clearly, that was a ghost domain occupied by an evil entity.

"I can't see anything." Li Yi glanced over. Although his eyes could see in the dark, without having activated his Spirit Medium, he was ultimately unable to reach certain truths.