Chapter 149: The Goat in the Black Forest

Wu Pifu finally knew where the sense of danger that had existed ever since he arrived in this capital came from.

A Level Three Nightmare!

So that was it.

Ever since Wu Pifu arrived in the capital, it was fine at first, and he didn't have much of a feeling. 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 beyond five steps, and within five steps... sorry, he was truly 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 also led him to forcibly drag Yu Rui to the street to ambush those secret agents, with the purpose 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 Three Nightmare!

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

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

Yu Rui asked in surprise.

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

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

Wu Pifu watched as Yu Rui sent this information to everyone via a special mobile phone.

Gao Zhanggong's development exceeded the expectations of both.

In Gao Zhanggong's team, there was a scientist—a real scientist, not someone like Wang Yihui who could hand-craft spiritual 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 that exceeded this Dream World would directly lead to the appearance of weak points in the curtain, and included 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, Yu Rui had already made contact with Wang Yihui's side more than ten minutes ago and truthfully informed them of the news, scaring Wang Yihui's side into immediately stopping many modification and manufacturing projects, while also destroying some things that had already been manufactured.

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

After Yu Rui finished operating, he said to Wu Pifu: "A Nightmare that can exist in physical form yet can resist Gao Si sniper rifles essentially explains its strength. Your sense of danger is correct. It is estimated that as time goes on, the possibility of its eruption is gradually increasing."

Wu Pifu was also quite confused at this time. He asked: "Seriously speaking, I can also resist Gao Si sniper rifles beyond five steps relying on my title. Maybe the Nightmare also has something similar?"

Yu Rui smiled bitterly. He shook his head at Wu Pifu and said: "You don't know anything... Titles are extracted from pollution sources by the Main Brain. We don't know exactly how it's done, but there is no doubt that a title is essentially a bottom-level logic of the world, similar to a conceptual weapon in cutting-edge scientific theory. The more powerful the title, the more so it is. This is equivalent to, equivalent to..."

For a moment, Yu Rui couldn't find any vocabulary to describe it, but Wu Pifu immediately knew: "Xiantian Spirit Treasure?"

"Yes, yes, yes, what an ancient vocabulary." Yu Rui said repeatedly: "It's just like the Xiantian Spirit Treasure in mythological novels. If the Nightmare also relies on something similar to block Gao Si sniper rifles, then do you think a Nightmare holding a Xiantian Spirit Treasure is more terrifying, or a Nightmare blocking it with its physical body?"

Wu Pifu immediately understood.

Undoubtedly, a Nightmare holding a Xiantian Spirit Treasure is more terrifying!

Yu Rui whispered to Wu Pifu at the same time: "I was a bit suspicious that they confused you with the Level Three Nightmare. After all, our appearance must have been known to them, and you performed the feat of blocking Gao Si 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. Yu Rui continued to whisper: "Nightmares rarely have human forms. Even if there are humanoid Nightmares, they still have at least obvious pollution and mutation characteristics. From your appearance, you are no different from a human. This was my biggest doubt before. Now with the corroboration of your sense of danger, it is clear that they didn't misunderstand anything. The Level Three Nightmare is not you."

Wu Pifu was immediately unhappy: "What do you mean by '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!"

Yu Rui was too lazy to argue with Wu Pifu. He had already led the team to start the action.

Ten maintenance personnel, plus Yu Rui and Wu Pifu, made twelve people. They were disguised, and with Yu Rui leading the team, they communicated with each other through modified mobile phones and headsets. They turned into extremely ordinary commoners wandering in various areas of the city. They looked like they were 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 rebels, the government army, and the big and small things 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 few areas are very likely where the royal family is located."

"The rebels seized control of the capital circle by surprise, and the nominal leader of the rebels is the highest general of the National Guard who guards the capital. So unless the field army of this country directly shells the capital, the only power left in the hands of the royal family is a small number of guards and government agents. This is also 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 at the same time: "As expected of Yu Rui. He was originally an elite agent of the human government. Now he is still as sharp as ever."

People 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 at this time and said: "Yu Rui said that Wu Pifu felt danger, and as time passed, this 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: "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 also have this feeling, 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 category, a perception-type extraordinary ability. This is very useful for team combat, 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 had feedback. The teams and squads closest to those areas immediately arranged for personnel to start investigating, and the remaining people mostly expressed their feelings. It was indeed as Wu Pifu said: the extraordinary personnel in their teams all felt restless for no reason, and the time point was exactly when the Level Three Nightmare appeared.

Clearly, that Level Three Nightmare was preparing to do something big, but everyone didn't know what it wanted to do yet.

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 Yu Rui.

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

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

This was below 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 below its basement. Its entrance and exit was a nuclear defense engineering 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 enclosed by an alloy shell, almost impossible to penetrate from the outside by external force. 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 rebels.

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

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

They were sitting back and relaxing!

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

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

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

Her eyes began to gush blood, and the goosebumps on her skin surface actually 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 mutated into two slightly larger human heads. Both of these heads were in her own image.

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

At the same time, at a position about fifty kilometers in diameter from the capital circle, several men and women wearing cloaks that covered their whole bodies were looking at the flesh and blood ring in front of them, as well as the flesh blocks that were completely corrupted and mutated within the flesh and blood ring. These men and women were watching 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 grow stronger, especially now that the leader has not awakened. Otherwise, even if the leader awakens, he will not be able to fight against him."

"Let's go. We must also stay away from the capital circle as soon as possible. The Black Goat's cub is a proliferative Nightmare. The more it kills, the more it devours, and the more it pollutes. In the end, it can even let 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 cub is still too weak at the beginning. If a high-power weapon evaporates its flesh and blood, or hits the shepherd at the core of its flesh and blood, it will die. Otherwise, if it were changed to a super metropolis of the three major countries, I am afraid that in the end, it could even make the Black Goat's body partially manifested."

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

"Now, just wait quietly for the beginning of the overture of destruction. Chu Minghao, are you going to return from behind the curtain to solve the Black Goat's cub? Or are you going to stay behind the curtain and continue to redeem this world?"

"We are very curious."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 150 =====