Chapter 1658: Atoner Heights

A tactical assault vehicle was speeding on the Gobi desert, with a few barrels of fuel tied to the top of the car shed, looking like a living target.

After driving at full speed for two hours, Su Xiao finally left that Gobi desert and entered a plain overgrown with withered grass. If there was one feeling the Black Abyss gave him most strongly, it was the harsh environment. God knows what strange environment would appear next. Ice, snow, and rain were fine, but what was truly troublesome were gravity faults or spatial turbulence. Entering such an area by accident would mean death or at least a layer of skin lost.

Fortunately, Su Xiao's luck was not bad. Perhaps he had used up his bad luck before. He didn't encounter too harsh an environment along the way. After solving that team of scavengers, those people still had no money, but a lot of fuel for vehicles. Su Xiao even suspected that the scavengers might have such a bad reputation in the Black Abyss that no other race was willing to trade with them, so carrying currency with them didn't make much sense.

Scavengers were not just victims. An hour and a half ago, just as Su Xiao was about to leave that Gobi desert, tens of thousands of tactical assault vehicles chased after him. This was revenge from the scavengers, and their leader had also arrived. That was a strong man with messy yellow hair and a metal mask, who vaguely gave Su Xiao a sense of threat.

Perhaps it was because of the fuel consumption, tens of thousands of tactical assault vehicles stopped at the edge of the Gobi desert. It wasn't until Su Xiao completely disappeared from their sight that these vultures gave up.

The harvest from the second attack on the scavengers was not small. Su Xiao actually found a map in the driver's cab of a truck. Although most of this Black Abyss map was moth-eaten, the remaining small piece marked the specific location of Atoner Heights.

The location Su Xiao was in was called the Withered Plain. There were rarely wild beasts or intelligent races here because this ghost place was very short of water. It was normal not to rain for several years.

"What are you going to Atoner Heights for."

Perhaps unable to stand the loneliness along the way, Lilith took the initiative to speak.

"Looking for something. Compared to what I'm looking for, your purpose in coming to Atoner Heights is more curious."

"I'm going there just because you are going. Following you is an order."

Lilith hugged her shoulders, her index finger tapping lightly on the battle scythe in her arms.

"Is that so? Then when I said I was going to Atoner Heights, the meaning in your eyes was clearly: what a coincidence, I'm going there too."

"Impossible..."

Lilith suddenly realized she had let something slip.

"Oh? So your destination is also Atoner Heights."

"You..."

Lilith gnashed her teeth. She felt the huge gap between herself and Su Xiao in terms of being an old schemer. It was simply being crushed over and then crushed back.

"Even if you guessed it, so what? I'm just going there to cooperate with someone to handle a troublesome matter, and it will be solved soon."

"Is that so? Wish you success."

Su Xiao didn't continue to pry into Lilith's words, so as not to let this Demon girl completely autistic. He now urgently needed an opportunity to make a name for himself. Regardless of whether the name was good or bad, it didn't matter. At least he had to spread Su Xiao's name. Only then could he judge whether Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Sha had both entered the Black Abyss and provide them with clues to find Su Xiao and meet up.

The promotion task was very difficult. Su Xiao felt that completing this task relying only on himself would be very strenuous, or even impossible to complete. In this way, he had to appropriately borrow the combat power of Lilith and Sha. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was also indispensable as a scout.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao glanced at the map in his hand. At most, he would be able to reach the vicinity of Atoner Heights in another 25 hours.

Along the way, except for Lilith's extremely private secrets, Su Xiao basically understood her situation. As for Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's side, he still couldn't contact it, and he didn't know what ghost place Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was in. Contacting it via audio, he could hear a soothing song, while text messages returned some garbled code, but this represented a good piece of news: Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang could reply to Su Xiao's text messages, which meant it had already entered the shallow layer of the Black Abyss.

The situation on Sha's side was still unknown, but the time he pitted the other party before was definitely not light for this tomboy. If they could meet later, he had to be appropriately vigilant against the other party.

23 hours later, Su Xiao and Lilith, who were taking turns driving the tactical assault vehicle, arrived near Atoner Heights.

Su Xiao had just jumped off the tactical assault vehicle when a prompt from Reincarnation Paradise appeared.

【Hint: The Hunter has arrived at the high-risk area Atoner Heights (also known as Atoner Heights).】

【This area is extremely dangerous. The Hunter has a chance to encounter high-tier enemies that cannot be countered.】

【Atoner Heights is divided into four parts: the outermost perimeter (current location), perimeter (relatively dangerous), atrium (dangerous, with a large number of guards), and central area (extremely dangerous, not recommended for the Hunter to approach).】

Su Xiao looked forward. What came into view was a large area of undulating tents and wooden houses. These buildings were built on a high ground. As for the center of the high ground, it could be described as boundless. At least Su Xiao couldn't see the center clearly from the outermost perimeter.

Such a huge gathering place for intelligent races definitely had its own unique order. Even if this was the chaotic Black Abyss, if no one could stabilize the scene, this super-large gathering place wouldn't have developed to the current scale.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was not here, unable to detect the situation in the central area, so Su Xiao had to find another way, and finding the local forces of Atoner Heights and joining one of them was the fastest method. If there was an opportunity to make a name for himself, that would be even better.

"What now? The person I'm waiting for hasn't arrived yet."

"I will join the local forces. You can continue to look for the person you are waiting for. If the situation is not right, contact me."

Su Xiao threw the remote communication device to Lilith. This thing could form a corridor signal within 20 kilometers to achieve communication.

Lilith agreed very readily, and Su Xiao walked into Atoner Heights.

On a stone staircase gradually leading upward, Su Xiao was walking slowly. He saw all kinds of races in the tents and residential houses along the way. These people had one characteristic: they were poor. Judging from their attire and physique, one could judge that there was also a strange smell permeating here.

If he wasn't mistaken, the outermost perimeter of Atoner Heights was a large circular slum.

After Su Xiao passed the slum on the outermost perimeter of Atoner Heights, a relatively flat area appeared in front. But a few men dressed differently and covered in dust blocked both sides of the road. Clearly, entering the perimeter and atrium of Atoner Heights was not simple, let alone the central area.

"Stop."

A haggard-looking guard holding a shotgun as thick as a thigh spoke, chewing something in his mouth.

"Proof."

The guard pulled down the clothing on his arm. On his forearm, there was a tattoo that looked like a wolf and a bear. The others wore rings and earrings of different specifications. These people were likely members of the local forces of Atoner Heights. ===== CHAPTER 1659 =====