"Asking for help?" Wang Baole stopped in his tracks. He lowered his head and carefully looked at the local-area network jade slip. He stared at the messages that were constantly being sent out.
From these messages, he could hear despair, a reluctance to part with his life, and a hint of madness to survive. Even as Wang Baole was looking through the messages, the Federation Seedling cried and begged. He even made promises, but no one responded to him in the group.
After all, due to the limitations of the local area network, Wang Baole was probably the only Federation cultivator in the vicinity of the Federation Seedling who had ventured deep into the sword body.
"Fang Mu, huh …" Wang Baole murmured softly. The image of a young man appeared in his mind. In his memory, he wasn't very familiar with this person. At most, they were just acquaintances. Back then, during the Federation Seedlings' collective training after they were awarded their titles, Fang Mu and many others had tried to ambush him.
After that, Fang Mu went to Mars with him, and they didn't have any interactions. It wasn't until they came to the ancient greenish-bronze sword that they had some contact with each other. However, in Wang Baole's memory, Fang Mu seemed to be closer to Li Yi.
Even so, they were all cultivators of the Federation. In this unfamiliar place, they had an obligation to help each other. In fact, if they weren't in the sword body but in the sword hilt, Wang Baole would have rushed over to help without hesitation. However … if they were in the sword body, then all these calls for help seemed a little strange.
"Fang Mu's cultivation is only at the Foundation Establishment stage. How did he manage to enter the sword body?" Wang Baole narrowed his eyes. During his time here, he had a deep understanding of how dangerous this place was. Therefore, after muttering to himself for a moment, he didn't rush over to help immediately. Instead, he suddenly spoke in the group.
"Fang Mu? Why are you here? "
Fang Mu seemed to have reached the pinnacle of despair. When he suddenly saw someone in the group speak, he was obviously stunned. Then, with excitement and ecstasy, he immediately sent a voice transmission in the group.
"Baole? Save me, Baole, save me! Me and five other Fellow Daoists from the Water Overlook Island were forced by the Island Lord to explore some ruins, but we encountered a seal. That despicable Island Lord killed the rest of us, and this guy stole an inner disciple token and escaped! "
Wang Baole looked at the words in the group and frowned. The other party's words did not reveal any clues. Everything seemed normal, but he still had some doubts in his heart.
"This is a little strange …" Wang Baole narrowed his eyes as he muttered to himself. However, he didn't reveal anything in the group chat. Instead, he asked the other party to send him their location.
It didn't take long for him to receive Fang Mu's location. After checking, he found that Fang Mu was less than five kilometers away from him. That was extremely close, which made Wang Baole even more hesitant. It wouldn't have been a big deal if Fang Mu was far away, but this close, and in the borderlands ….
"What a coincidence …. Everything seems to be leading me there." Wang Baole's eyes flashed. With a flash of his body, he didn't rush toward Fang Mu's location. Instead, he continued to fly toward the protective layer, intending to leave this place.
As for the rescue, in this sword body, the appearance of the other party was already suspicious, no matter how good the other party's words were. Wang Baole was well aware of the importance of caution in this unfamiliar environment. He was not a saint who would be overflowing with sympathy and disregard his own safety to rescue Fang Mu.
Therefore, even if it was a little callous, Wang Baole still decided to ignore it. However, not long after, as the calls for help in the group grew more urgent, Wang Baole frowned.
He realized that … he was lost!!
In front of him was the protective barrier that he had used to arrive at. However, looking at it now, it blurred instantly and disappeared without a trace. That made Wang Baole extremely cautious. After circling around the area, he continued to move forward. Not long after, he stopped in his tracks again. Looking at the fog that had appeared silently in front of him, Wang Baole frowned. He suddenly took out his local area network jade slip and looked at the location that Fang Mu had sent.
"Interesting," he muttered to himself as his pupils shrank slightly. "That's interesting."
His original goal had been to leave, but he was getting closer and closer to the location where Fang Mu was calling for help. As of now, he was less than five hundred kilometers away.
Wang Baole's face darkened. He turned to look at the location where Fang Mu had called for help. With a cold snort, he headed in that direction. Before long, he had covered five hundred kilometers and was at the location where Fang Mu had called for help.
Shockingly, this was a highland, which the sea of fire had been unable to drown out. Furthermore, there were traces of the area being moved. Clearly, this place had not been a highland until recently, but rather, had been rebuilt after the strange changes in the sword body region.
Such areas could be seen everywhere. Wang Baole had seen them many times before, so he wasn't too worried. However, what caused his pupils to constrict was that there was a three-hundred-meter-long golden beetle buried in the ground!!
A small part of the beetle's body was buried in the ground, and the exposed part exuded an aura of decay. The beetle's shell was covered in cracks, and there was even a four to five-meter-wide pit. The structure of the beetle's body was exposed, and that structure … was not the flesh and blood of a living creature, but a cabin!!
Wang Baole had seen a Sea Glutton before. In fact, he had left one in his Dark Artifact, so he knew that there were many civilizations in the universe, and they had all sorts of strange flying Dharmic Artifacts. Not all civilizations had airships like the Federation. Some had Sea Gluttons, and some had other strange objects. For example, although this was his first time seeing this beetle, he could immediately tell that it was a biological airship!
Even though the beetle was dead and its insides were damaged, it still exuded waves of frightening aura. To Wang Baole, the aura was comparable to that of a Nascent Soul realm cultivator. He couldn't help but narrow his eyes. At the same time, he saw that beside the beetle was … a dried corpse!
This corpse was wearing the robes of a Vast Expanse Dao Palace disciple. From the looks of it, this person was Fang Mu, one of the Hundred Seedlings of the Federation. From the aura of death emanating from his body, it was obvious that he had been dead for about a month.
At the same time, his face still showed signs of pain before he died. All of this immediately confirmed Wang Baole's suspicions. What made him feel even stranger was that although he had clearly seen the corpse and arrived at this place, Fang Mu's cries for help were still ringing out in the group chat of the local area network.
This made Wang Baole take a deep breath. From the intense pain on Fang Mu's face, this person had probably been searched or interrogated while he was alive.
"Is this trap targeting me or everyone else?" Wang Baole didn't go any closer. After taking a deep look at the corpse, he retreated and was about to leave.
However, the moment he retreated, a chilly wind suddenly blew past his ears. Even though the surroundings were originally scorching hot, the entire place fell into an extreme silence.
The sky was dark, and the ground was blurry. Only the sounds of crying and laughing could be heard. As the chilly wind blew, it drifted from all directions.
"Mommy, mommy, I'm hungry …"
"Mommy, your fingers don't taste good. I'm so hungry. I still want to eat …"
"Don't hit me. Don't kill me. Don't peel off my skin. Mommy, it hurts …"
The eerie voice of a child carried a chill that made one's scalp tingle as it reverberated in the surroundings. Wang Baole's heart skipped a beat. He even felt that there seemed to be a few children running around him, hand in hand.
One of them seemed to be running and running, and eventually, it came to a stop next to him, smiling at him. Wang Baole instinctively turned his head to look, and what he saw was a white-robed, long-haired woman standing about ten meters away. Her hair was so long that it covered her face. Next to her stood seven young boys, all of whom had strange smiles on their faces as they stared fixedly at Wang Baole.
Wang Baole's pupils constricted. It was at this point that the white-robed woman suddenly looked up, revealing a terrifying face with no eyes, no nose, and only a gaping black mouth. She led the seven young boys toward Wang Baole!
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