Chapter 258: Plan

The next few days didn't have any more fatal accidents.

But everyone clearly felt that the search mission was becoming increasingly difficult.

This area was no longer as smooth and stable as before.

In the space, many twisted areas invisible to the naked eye appeared.

Some twisted locations had extremely chaotic space and absolutely must not be touched.

Previously, an unlucky reconnaissance mosquito swarm just got slightly close, and the moment it made contact, the entire mosquito swarm was teleported and torn to pieces by the violent spatial force.

If a creature with a slightly larger head dared to get close, it would probably be torn into pieces.

And some areas were like a fork in the road leading to the unknown.

Only after going in can one know what is inside.

It could be a resource-rich "Peach Blossom Spring," or it could be a "dead end" leading to death.

According to Levin Mills, this area should be the location where this "spatial distortion" had "just" occurred.

The internal spatial rules were not yet completely stable, which is why such chaotic problems occurred.

But this way, Jie Ming and the others were like stepping into a maze composed of space itself, full of deadly traps.

Explorers never know what they will encounter in their next step.

This not only caused the difficulty of the search to rise sharply, but the time spent also became more and more.

However, the wizards present had no complaints.

After all, the more unstable and chaotic this area was, the greater the number of various strange creatures and special resources.

Although it was extra time-consuming to search, everyone's gains also increased quite a bit.

And fortunately, with "Glow Worms" as reconnaissance pioneers helping to step on pits, the wizards didn't suffer much loss.

As more and more resources were collected, those recruited wizards also began to be willing to use magic potions to restore their souls damaged by the spiritual shock of the soul contract.

The only thing that was a bit troublesome was that the stout wizard who served as the reconnaissance core seemed to be unable to hold on.

When resting tonight, the wizards rarely gathered together.

Because Levin Mills, after some investigation, discovered a relatively stable huge area.

He decided to let everyone go there to search together first tomorrow.

It was also for this reason that the wizards had to gather together to regroup.

Jie Ming followed the spiritual navigation between the "Glow Worms" and arrived at the gathering point.

He felt quite normal at first, until his gaze fell on the stout wizard, and he was startled.

Strictly speaking, in Jie Ke's team now, there was no "stout wizard" anymore.

Replacing him was a wizard who looked like he had been drained of all vitality, withered and thin as a stick.

If it weren't for being able to feel the weak soul aura from the opposite side and confirming that this guy was the stout wizard from before, Jie Ming wouldn't even believe his eyes.

Scanning around, Jie Ming soon found Jie Ke and leaned over calmly.

"You're here? I thought you would come later."

Jie Ke, seeing it was Jie Ming, subconsciously greeted him.

"It's okay, encountered a spatial distortion yesterday, and after coming out, the location was very close to the gathering point."

Jie Ming signaled with his eyes at the withered wizard and asked: "Senior Jie Ke, that... what's going on?"

Jie Ke looked in the direction of his gaze, shrugged without any image, and showed an expression of being used to it: "What else could be going on, the consumption of 'Glow Worms' recently is really too much, so the flesh and blood on his body can't hold up a bit."

Jie Ming was shocked upon hearing this!

He had indeed seen the process of the stout wizard creating Glow Worms with his own eyes, but he had always thought that the way the opponent stripped flesh and blood from his own body and turned it into mosquitoes was just a special storage method similar to "flesh and blood compression."

Just like the armor Jie Ke wore before could instantly expand into a huge humanoid fortress, not because he violated the law of conservation of mass and energy, but because "mechanical compression" technology was applied to the armor.

And although the stout wizard had a huge body, the amount of Glow Worms he consumed in the past few days far exceeded his own body weight, so Jie Ming had never thought in that direction.

After all, even in the exceptionally developed wizard society, spatial equipment capable of carrying living things is exceptionally expensive, and ordinary low-level wizards simply have no ability to afford it.

Didn't expect, it was really stripping his own flesh and blood!

Jie Ming couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Didn't expect... there would be someone using such self-mutilating wizardry. Really gained knowledge..."

Jie Ke couldn't help but look at him upon hearing this, his expression unreadable.

"What's wrong?" Jie Ming felt his gaze was a bit strange.

"No... nothing." Jie Ke shook his head, having no intention to continue the exchange.

Jie Ming was full of confusion, not knowing which sentence he said was wrong.

At this time, Levin Mills also came here, and he also saw the miserable state of the "stout wizard" now.

His brows were tightly furrowed, and he stepped forward to ask with concern: "How is the situation, can you still hold on?"

The original "stout wizard," now the "withered wizard," pulled out a smile that was uglier than crying.

His voice was hoarse and weak, his face full of distress: "If it continues to be lost like this, I can hold on for at most thirteen more days."

Other wizards heard this and couldn't help but shake their heads in their hearts.

If this is the case, then their mission this time will fail.

However, the temporarily recruited wizards seemed very calm, and could even be called in a good mood.

After all, their gains during this period were quite a lot, and even if they didn't get the mission reward, they could be called full of gains, and they were already very satisfied.

Levin Mills stepped forward, patted the withered wizard on the shoulder gently, and comforted him in a low voice.

Afterward, he turned around and began to explain tomorrow's search plan to everyone:

"Everyone, quiet down."

His voice was not loud, but it clearly reached everyone's ears.

"I roughly checked the area to be searched tomorrow earlier."

"Different from the area we explored before. The overall height of that area is significantly higher."

Following Levin Mills's narration, the group also understood the general situation of the area to be explored tomorrow.

If the area they searched before looked like a relatively "flat" form, then the area in front of them was an inverted "trapezoid."

Not only did the height become higher, but the "upper" area also became wider.

If wizards wanted to search before, they only needed to line up in a horizontal row and push forward to cover all the areas that needed to be searched.

But in this situation now...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 259 =====