Chapter 260: 259 Wasteland

"Mother, Mother! Mother!!"

A small, delicate figure wandered the dim street, her childish voice calling out for her mother.

"Mother, where are you?"

"Mother, Mother??"

"Ling'er is so scared, really so scared..."

"Mother!!!"

"Mother, where are you?"

Light could be seen from the houses along the street, and behind those windows, moving shadows were visible.

"Oh, little girl, can't find your way back?"

On the street, just as the child was searching for her family, a voice suddenly sounded in her ear, making her instinctively look toward the speaker.

That was, of course, Wang Wu, along with his animal friends... ah no, along with his three teammates.

"Oh, there's a kid here."

Wang Wu looked at the child before him expressionlessly and said.

Then, Wang Wu raised his hand, and a beam of light shot from his fingertip. The next moment, the child vanished from before them.

"Haha, dead."

Watching the child disappear without a trace, Wang Wu laughed, then put his hands on his hips and looked at the houses on either side.

"What did you see?" Li Quan beside him asked.

"Nothing." Wang Wu turned his head back. "Just felt that the environment here is rather familiar."

This place was a street very similar to his hometown on Earth, giving him a sense of home. But he didn't plan to share this with his teammates around him, because sharing was useless—they weren't from his hometown anyway.

"Those people, those surviving people, are you sure they're here?"

At this point, Xuan Qingzi also asked Wang Wu. After glancing at her, Wang Wu replied:

"That kid just now was one of them."

"But you killed her!" Xuan Qingzi interjected.

"Shut up!" Wang Wu glared at her. "She'd already turned into a monster. What was I supposed to do if not kill her? Keep it around?"

"She wasn't human anymore!"

"Then, what about the others? Where are they?"

"I'm looking." Wang Wu looked around. "I only know roughly that they're in this area, but I'm not clear on the exact location."

"Then should we split up to search?"

Li Quan offered an opinion. "We go in pairs, and then..."

"I don't think that's a good idea." Wang Wu shook his head. "This place is dangerous. There's no need to do something unwise at a time like this."

This mission wasn't very difficult, and splitting up as Li Quan suggested wasn't impossible, but Wang Wu had always been someone who valued his life and was timid. Unless it was absolutely necessary to split up during a mission, he always stuck with the main group.

As for commanding the team, he usually wasn't responsible for that kind of thing, because he was never the strongest one in a team.

The master, or rather the department within Qiong Lan Sect responsible for assigning tasks to the sect's cultivators, took good care of him. Every mission, he could latch onto a strong teammate. Of course, Wang Wu didn't always have a strong teammate to latch onto in every mission; sometimes he himself was the strong one.

But the difficulty of those missions was also very low, ensuring Wang Wu never encountered any danger.

In Qiong Lan Sect, the higher the mission difficulty, the more merit points you could earn, and the more merit points you had, the faster you could advance within the sect.

Of course, it wasn't just that. Merit points brought many other benefits, and these benefits were also very tempting to Wang Wu...

Well, not that tempting either. In this regard, Wang Wu was quite laid-back.

But no matter how laid-back he was, when it was time to do a mission, he couldn't avoid it. Although he could rely on his family's 'connections' to make his missions easier and his assigned teammates more reliable, often allowing him to latch onto a strong one,

in the end, if you wanted to advance further, you still had to work hard.

Without hard work, many things couldn't be obtained; without hard work, the pace of advancement would be much slower.

"You're not like how you are in the training ground. You're quite conservative now."

Li Quan said with a smile.

"The training ground is the training ground, and this is here. The two places are different." Wang Wu glanced at her. "In the training ground, I won't really get killed, but if I die here, I'm really dead."

As he spoke, Wang Wu continued searching for where the survivors might be, then he paused.

"What..."

"What's wrong?"

Li Quan asked.

"Something's strange."

Wang Wu stepped forward quickly. With one step, he instantly crossed a huge distance, a full several kilometers.

His teammates immediately followed, not falling behind.

This wasn't some special feature of this place; it was Wang Wu's own skill.

Reducing the ground to an inch—a very common skill in fantasy stories. Wang Wu naturally knew it too.

Wang Wu rapidly advanced a great distance through this neighborhood. In terms of distance, he had covered at least several hundred thousand kilometers.

But even so, he still couldn't get out of this street.

The True Realm was a very strange place. All kinds of things could happen here, and often, you simply couldn't leave a place.

Or you might keep going in circles, never truly leaving.

What Wang Wu and his team were encountering now was that the surrounding environment was moving along with him.

"Damn it, so that's what's going on."

Realizing this, Wang Wu stopped and cursed at the unchanged environment around him.

Then, he looked at Xuan Qingzi: "Senior Sister, it's up to you."

Xuan Youzi nodded, then walked to Wang Wu's side and drew a sigil in the void.

"Go!"

Accompanying her voice, the space she had previously inscribed began to tear, and immediately a long sword shot out.

"Go!"

She called again, and the sword thrust straight toward the sky, then turned into a white beam that fell.

A white line appeared between heaven and earth, linking the two.

Then it burst.

The light flared, swiftly devouring everything around.

This is a magical artifact of the Qionglan Sect, specifically for use in the True Realm, crafted from special material, and in the True Realm's environment it can produce an extremely powerful effect.

Moreover, a few people can completely cut this entire space out of the True Realm, returning it to the normal world.

Of course, that kind of artifact would not be used here.

And the one Xuan Youzi was wielding has only one purpose: destruction.

To utterly destroy the surrounding environment.

Indeed, the True Realm cannot be destroyed, but it can be expelled, so this is essentially expulsion.

Nevertheless, calling it destruction isn't entirely inaccurate.

The dazzling white light persisted for a long while, and when it faded, the place where everyone stood instantly changed its appearance.

It was a wasteland, an endless wasteland.

(End of Chapter)