Chapter 149: The Goat in the Black Forest

Wu Pifu finally knew where the sense of danger that had been with him since he arrived in the capital came from.

Level 3 Nightmare!

So that was it.

Since Wu Pifu arrived in the capital, he was fine at first and didn't feel much. Even when he brushed shoulders with those rebel patrol squads, he didn't feel any danger. After all, with the "Pifu" title, he could almost ignore most high-tech weapons from more than five steps away. And within five steps... sorry, he was actually faster than a gun.

But as time passed, in the morning, his sense of danger began to appear, and it became more and more severe as time went on. This led him to forcibly drag Su Xing to the street to ambush those secret agents, with the goal of finding the whereabouts of the New Human Revolutionary Army, even if it was just a tiny possibility.

At that time, he didn't know where the sense of danger came from, but now he knew: it came from the Level 3 Nightmare!

When Su Xing led ten maintenance personnel to prepare for action, Wu Pifu naturally followed, and he told Su Xing about this situation in detail.

"Wait a minute, is this also your extraordinary ability?"

Su Xing asked in surprise.

Wu Pifu was stunned for a moment. He thought about it and said, "This... can it also be considered an extraordinary ability?"

Su Xing affirmed, "Yes, why not? Think about it, can an ordinary mortal have such a strong sixth sense? This ability to quantify danger is a very standard extraordinary ability. Very good, this information is very important and must be told to the others immediately!"

Wu Pifu watched as Su Xing sent this information to everyone via a special mobile phone.

Gao Zhanggong’s development exceeded the expectations of the two.

In Gao Zhanggong’s team, there was a scientist—a real scientist, not someone like Wang Yihui who could hand-craft spirit children. And this scientist also brought two graduate students, as well as a group of maintenance personnel with various skill branches. So the things they researched, manufactured, and analyzed all exceeded Wang Yihui’s.

This included the fact that long-term use of technological creations beyond this Dream World would directly lead to the appearance of weak points in the Veil, and the modification and cracking of various creations in this Dream World without exceeding its technological level. All of this was led by this scientist named Xu Yi.

Relying on these conveniences, Su Xing had already made contact with Wang Yihui’s side more than ten minutes ago and informed them of this news truthfully, scaring Wang Yihui’s side into immediately stopping many modification and manufacturing projects and destroying some things that had already been manufactured.

At this time, Su Xing sent a group message, and all the maintenance teams, maintenance squads, and individual maintenance personnel in the capital circle who had been contacted knew the situation.

After Su Xing finished operating, he said to Wu Pifu, "A Nightmare that can exist physically but can resist Gauss sniper rifles—this in itself explains its strength. Your sense of danger is correct. It is estimated that as time goes on, the possibility of it erupting is gradually increasing."

Wu Pifu was also quite confused at this time. He asked, "Seriously speaking, I can resist Gauss sniper rifles from more than five steps away relying on my title. Maybe the Nightmare also has something similar?"

Su Xing smiled bitterly. He shook his head at Wu Pifu and said, "You don't know anything... A title is formed by the main brain extracting a source of contamination. We don't know exactly how it is done, but there is no doubt that a title is essentially a fundamental logic of the world, similar to a conceptual weapon in cutting-edge scientific theory. The more powerful the title, the more this is the case. This is equivalent to, equivalent to..."

For a moment, Su Xing couldn't find any words to describe it, but Wu Pifu immediately knew: "Xiantian Spirit Treasure?"

"Yes, yes, yes, what an ancient term." Su Xing said repeatedly, "It’s just like the Xiantian Spirit Treasures in mythological novels. If you think the Nightmare also relies on something similar to resist Gauss sniper rifles, do you think a Nightmare holding a Xiantian Spirit Treasure is more terrifying, or a Nightmare that resists with its physical body?"

Wu Pifu immediately understood.

Without a doubt, a Nightmare holding a Xiantian Spirit Treasure is more terrifying!

Su Xing whispered to Wu Pifu at the same time, "I was a bit suspicious that they confused you with the Level 3 Nightmare. After all, our appearance must have been known to them, and you performed the feat of blocking Gauss sniper bullets with your physical body on the spot. But now I am more and more certain that this is not the case."

Wu Pifu looked back in confusion. Su Xing continued to whisper, "Nightmares rarely have human forms. Even if there are humanoid Nightmares, they still have at least obvious signs of contamination and deformity. From your appearance, you are no different from a human. This was my biggest doubt before. Now with your sense of danger as evidence, it is clear that they did not misunderstand anything. The Level 3 Nightmare is not you."

Wu Pifu was immediately unhappy: "What do you mean 'no different from a human from the appearance'? On the digitized panel of my personal information displayed by the main brain, I am directly a pure-blooded human, okay!"

Su Xing couldn't be bothered to argue with Wu Pifu. He had already led the team to start the action.

Ten maintenance personnel, plus Su Xing and Wu Pifu, made twelve people. They were disguised, and with Su Xing leading the team, they communicated with each other through modified mobile phones and earpieces. They turned into extremely ordinary common people wandering in various areas of the city. They seemed to be walking aimlessly, but every time they could just happen to avoid the areas where the rebel secret agents were, and at the same time, they could collect news about the rebel army, the government army, and all kinds of news in the city.

All this information was summarized in the base where Gao Zhanggong was located, and through the primary artificial intelligence written by Xu Yi, big data screening was carried out, and various information began to emerge one by one.

"...These areas are likely where the royal family is located."

"The rebel army seized control of the capital circle by surprise, and the nominal leader of the rebel army is the highest-ranking general of the National Guard guarding the capital. So unless the field army of this country directly shells the capital, the only force left in the hands of the royal family is a small number of guards and government agents. This is why there was no street fighting in the capital."

Gao Zhanggong passed this series of information to the other teams and squads. He also praised, "As expected of Su Xing. He was originally an elite agent of the human government, and now he is still as sharp as ever."

Everyone around expressed understanding. After all, there were many talents among the maintenance personnel, and this was no longer fresh news. Gao Zhanggong looked at the drowsy Hao Yunfeng and said, "Su Xing said that Wu Pifu felt danger, and as time went on, the danger became more and more severe. What about you? Did you feel it?"

Hao Yunfeng came back to his senses. He immediately nodded with a serious face and said, "Yes, although it is very hazy, I do feel more and more restless. This is indeed the instinct of danger."

Gao Zhanggong also said, "Yes, I have this feeling too, but I didn't know it was the instinct of danger before... It seems that Wu Pifu’s extraordinary ability is very useful. It should be a sense of consciousness, a perception-type extraordinary ability. This is very useful for team operations, and it is not too far from us. It is in District Z, right next to our district..."

While the two were talking, other teams and squads also fed back news. The teams and squads closest to those areas immediately arranged for personnel to investigate, and the remaining people mostly expressed their feelings. It was indeed as Wu Pifu said: the extraordinary personnel in their teams all felt inexplicably restless, and the time point was exactly when the Level 3 Nightmare appeared.

Clearly, the Level 3 Nightmare was preparing to do something big, but for now, everyone didn't know what it wanted to do.

At the same time, in a building somewhere in the capital circle, this location was exactly one of the areas where the royal family might be located, as confirmed by Su Xing.

"Don't... Dad, Mom, Brother..."

A blonde girl of about twelve years old was kneeling and crawling in the ventilation duct.

This was under the basement of the building.

As a shelter secretly built by the royal family, the building looked unremarkable from the outside, but there was a huge space under its basement. Its entrance and exit was a nuclear defense project door. Once closed, unless opened by internal personnel, even a tactical nuclear bomb could not break it open in a short time.

!

At the same time, the entire underground area was completely sealed by an alloy shell, almost impossible to penetrate from the outside. This was the life-saving trump card prepared by the royal family of this country, which had been built twenty years ago. This was also the reason why the royal family came here immediately after avoiding the rebel army.

They believed that as long as the door was closed, they would be safe, and they would be safe until the rebel army was wiped out by the regular field army, or the Supreme Empire intervened in this coup. This place was enough to protect them, and no force outside could break in.

And inside this shelter, there was enough energy, fresh water, food, and oxygen circulation to allow five hundred people to survive for at least a year.

They were sitting back and relaxing!

Unless... the threat came directly from the inside!

Just behind the ventilation duct where the little girl was kneeling, countless flesh and blood surged into tentacles. On every tentacle of flesh and blood, there were dense, tiny human heads that were enough to make people with trypophobia faint directly. And these human heads, like small bumps, were wailing, moaning, or chanting a certain rhythmic melody in unison.

The little girl covered her ears tightly, but blood still gushed out from her ears.

Her eyes began to gush blood, and the goosebumps on her skin surface gradually took shape, also turning into tiny human heads.

"Dad, Mom, Brother... do you see it? That black forest..."

The little girl suddenly stopped crying. She opened her eyes and looked at the surging flesh and blood. Her pupils had completely deformed into two slightly larger human heads, and both of these heads were in her own image.

"...I see it, the goat in the black forest..."

At the same time, at a location with a diameter of about fifty kilometers from the capital circle, several men and women wearing cloaks that covered their entire bodies looked at the ring of flesh and blood in front of them, as well as the flesh that had completely rotted and deformed within the ring. These men and women watched quietly, without any extra reaction.

"It succeeded. Using the cultivation techniques they practiced as a guide, we successfully let the cubs of the Black Goat descend into the capital." A man said in a low voice.

The others watched all this silently. After a long time, someone said, "As expected of the Black Forest, the 0.2 baseline reality Dream World..."

While speaking, a crystal ball in one person’s hand shattered directly into sand. This person said regretfully, "What a pity, this fantasy object was quite strong..."

Several people nodded slightly, but someone else said, "Using a top-level fantasy object to exchange for a failure of Chu Minghao is simply too cost-effective. We cannot let him continue to become stronger, especially now that the leader has not yet awakened. Otherwise, even if the leader wakes up, he will not be able to compete with him."

"Let’s go, we must also stay away from the capital circle as soon as possible. The cubs of the Black Forest Goat are proliferative Nightmares. The more they kill, the more they swallow, and the more they contaminate, in the end, they can even make the real Black Goat cast its gaze. With this capital as the core, it is not safe within a diameter of five hundred kilometers!"

"The only regret is that the goat cubs are still too weak at the beginning. If high-power weapons evaporate their flesh and blood, or hit the shepherd at the core of their flesh and blood, it will die. Otherwise, if it were moved to the super-metropolises of the three major countries, it might eventually allow the Black Goat’s main body to have partial manifestation."

Several people talked to each other, and then they looked at the capital direction at the same time.

"Now, just wait for the prelude to destruction to begin. Chu Minghao, are you going to return from behind the Veil to solve the Black Forest Goat cubs? Or are you going to stay behind the Veil and continue to redeem this world?"

"We are very curious."