Mount Wangxi.
It was the mountain next to the Tang Mansion.
Even without reading Grandfather Han's monthly diary, Tang Ling knew he had to go to Mount Wangxi to get the final answer.
The only mountain range in Wanghe County was Mount Wangxi, which was beside the Tang Manor.
Tang Ling walked away in a carefree manner, but he also did one last thing for the souls that had died in Grandfather Han's hands. He left a letter stating that there were dozens of bodies in the pond at the entrance of the Tang mansion and that he hoped that they could be salvaged and given a proper burial.
It was not something that Grandfather Han wrote down in his diary. It was just a deduction that Tang Ling came up with based on all sorts of clues.
In short, it would be troublesome to deal with the bodies, so the best option was the pond in front of Tang Manor.
As for why he did it? Tang Ling had no answer either. It was just a dream and a mission, but after being stuck in it for a while, he felt like he was experiencing history.
Tang Ling was quick on his feet.
From the foot of the mountain beside the Tang Manor, it took him less than two hours to cover a few kilometers and reach the top of Mount Wangxi.
When he turned around, he could see the whole of Qingxi town, but it was too far away and too small for him.
The black warrior suit on his body changed again, returning to the regular combat suit he wore before he entered the dream.
It also meant that he no longer needed to cover up his identity for the mission in Qingxi town. What happened next was the core of the mission.
There were very few clues.
Other than mentioning the charred land and a hidden mountain stream, Grandfather Han's diary did not mention anything else about the specific location.
Mount Wangxi was not small as it was a mountain range. If Tang Ling wanted to search the entire place, it would take him two to three days.
However, the mission had given him three days to complete.
Therefore, according to the rules of the Dream Domain, the countdown started when there were only 24 hours left.
Tang Ling only had 20 hours left, so he could not search the mountain.
As for that scorched land, after twenty years, it should have already been covered by new vegetation. It was best to give up on the idea of finding a piece of barren land by relying on the high ground.
Tang Ling was on a tight schedule. Not only was it tight, but it was also very tight.
The Dream Domain had revealed its ferocious claws at the very last moment.
[Completion: 80%. Rating: E. You may choose to leave the Dream Domain. No rewards.]
[Completion: 90%. Rating: D] Able to choose to withdraw from the Dream Domain and receive compensatory rewards and related dream items.
Completion: 100%. Rating: C. You may choose to leave the Dream Domain. Awarded 1 Dream Coin and the right to enter the Mysterious Store.
If the rating was below E or the completion rate was below 80%, the Dream Seed would be disqualified.
That was what Tang Ling got.
Only when he reached a 100% Completion Rate would he receive a C rating and one Dream Coin.
Speaking of which, Kun was really a liar. He made Tang Ling think that he could enter the Mysterious Store every time he entered the dream. He even made Tang Ling think that the items in the store were cheap.
He was really bad. He didn't look like an old man.
Therefore, Tang Ling was naive and naive.
However, Tang Ling was not in a hurry. Instead, he carefully analyzed the information. For example, the compensation reward and the related dream items were interesting.
What did this mean? Every dream had a special item that could affect reality, which meant that he could search for it in the dream.
Whether he could find it or not depended on his luck, but if he could not, after the dream ended, he would be rewarded with a related dream item.
For example, the dream in Qingxi Town this time. Tang Ling guessed that it must be related to martial arts.
It was great! Before this dream ended, Tang Ling was already looking forward to the next one.
On top of that, Tang Ling also picked up the scent of 'protection'.
The last rule of the completion rate stated that if the rating was below E or the completion rate was below 80%, the Dream Seed would be disqualified.
It was a form of protection.
It did not mention what if the completion rate was below 60%. What if it was below 40%? Would there be a more severe punishment? It was entirely possible.
Otherwise, if the Dream Seed was exhausted from the dangerous dream, it could easily find a loophole to get rid of its disqualification.
Would the Dream Domain leave such a huge loophole? No, it was impossible.
Judging from the fact that the injuries and deaths in the dream could be reflected in reality, the Dream Domain could easily kill a Dream Seed. Therefore, it meant that the first time he entered the dream, he would receive some benefits, but the next time might be even more dangerous. Even if he was not killed by all sorts of dangers in the dream, he might be killed by the Dream Domain right away.
Although it was just a hypothesis, it made Tang Ling feel a little less eager to enter the Dream.
Even as he pondered over all the questions, he still looked relaxed. He even had the mood to walk as he scooped some wet, sticky mud off the ground and put it into his backpack. Soon, he gathered a big pile of mud and did not seem to mind the weight at all.
He looked exactly like a playful child.
"It's almost time." Tang Ling patted the bulging backpack and used the sunlight to determine the direction. He quickly made up his mind and sprinted in that direction.
His figure was as nimble as a monkey in the forest. The ancient Huaxia forest was a lot gentler than the forest in the Purple Moon era. There were no dangerous beasts, mutated insects, or mutated plants that would devour humans. For Tang Ling, who had been hunting in the forest since he was young, was there any difference between the forest and the plain?
No. Therefore, Tang Ling was as fast as a gray shadow that was hard to catch.
In this vast mountain forest, was twenty hours of time very tight? Yes, it was. Even though the clues were limited, there were still clues, were there not?
The soldiers had searched for three days, but they had found the charred land on the first day. How fast could the soldiers be on foot?
Grandfather Han had written in his monthly diary that he had found the cave that very night. Even if Grandfather Han was familiar with Mount Wangxi and was a martial artist who was faster than the soldiers, how much faster could he be? Could he be faster than Tang Ling?
Tang Ling had Precise Instinct, so the first time he went up the mountain, he chose a high hill and went straight up. He wanted to use his Precise Instinct to calculate the distance that he could reach in a day.
Then, there was another important clue. The object from the sky came from the south and north, so the direction it would appear in was fixed.
Therefore, he only had 20 hours. What was there to panic about? Based on Tang Ling's current abilities, he could run a few hours at the fastest speed of the old civilization and not feel tired even though he was conserving his stamina.
With the Level 2 vicious beast jerky in his mouth, Tang Ling chose to jump between the trees to save time.
He would stop from time to time to chew and digest a piece of Level 2 vicious beast meat. According to his plan, he was not after a C rating. Instead, he was after the B, A, or even S rating that the Dream Domain did not provide, if there was one.
He grew stronger in the dream.
As a matter of fact, every time he felt like his body could digest and convert, he would chew on a piece of meat jerky.
The stronger his body became, the more he could withstand. This was a very good virtuous cycle.
In the Dream Domain, the most efficient way was not to eat too much at once. He would eat the most appropriate amount and digest it quickly. Of course, if he exercised a lot, the effect would be better.
A lot of the theories were not profound, but they were common. It was no different from the muscle training of the old civilization.
Therefore, Tang Ling did not save his stamina at all. He would use everything he had to push himself to the limit.
As he shuttled through the forest at his fastest speed, his search range started to shrink.
Gradually, the mountain forest became quieter.
Slowly, the temperature started to cool down. The forest was very dense, so the sunlight could barely shine in.
It was already the third suspicious spot that he had circled. Tang Ling sniffed and suddenly slowed down before he jumped down from the tree.
At the same time, a big tiger with a white forehead also came out of a dense bush with a gust of demonic wind.
Was this the tiger of the old civilization? Compared to the tigers of the Purple Moon era, it was like a kitten.
After Tang Ling landed, he dashed over to the tiger. The moment the tiger raised its paw, Tang Ling punched it in the face.
Tang Ling's punch contained almost 1,500 kgs of force. Theoretically speaking, 800 kgs of punching force was enough to kill a bull, and of course, it was a bull from the old civilization.
The tiger's face sunk in, but strangely, it acted as if nothing had happened. It widened its twisted mouth and tried to bite Tang Ling's arm.
It was what Tang Ling expected, so he did not even try to dodge. The moment the tiger bit at him, he grabbed the tiger by the jaw.
The big tiger was lifted up by the scrawny young man and it started to struggle crazily in a standing position.
"Hmph, so this is how the Kingdom of Yu descends?" Tang Ling observed the tiger. Its golden eyes were tinged with an obvious grayish hue.
Then, he twisted the hand that was pinching the tiger's chin to the left, and the tiger's neck made a cracking sound. The cervical vertebra was broken, and the struggling tiger stopped twisting.
Tang Ling tossed the tiger's carcass away, but he did not leave right away. Instead, he quickly took out a pile of mud from his backpack and sealed the seven orifices of the tiger as fast as he could.
The tiger's carcass started to expand in a strange manner. A small bump soon appeared on its abdomen and it squirmed around before it started to struggle crazily again.
The patch of fur on the tiger's carcass was flipped up, revealing its grayish-white skin. The grayish-white skin started to turn transparent.
However, Tang Ling did not just stand there and do nothing. He quickly made a torch by drilling wood and lit the carcass on fire.
The fire was burning fiercely, and a few weird puffing noises came from the tiger's dead body. Then, it completely quieted down.
Tang Ling understood that the method he chose might be old but it was effective.
However, the rest of the journey would not be easy. When Tang Ling looked up, he realized that he was surrounded.
Beside him were three wolves, two wild boars, a tiger, and two forest leopards. No, they should be called zombie wolves and zombie pigs.
This is just the beginning, right?
Tang Ling provocatively hooked his finger at one of the corpse tigers. With a roar from the corpse tiger, the battle began again.
It was a battle without any suspense. In less than five minutes, a few more carcasses were added to the ground.
Tang Ling did not have the time to seal the seven orifices of each of the carcasses, but whenever the Devil Fungus appeared, it would strangely condense and form before dispersing.
All he had to do was light it up before that happened.
As a matter of fact, Tang Ling was just guessing that the Devil Fungus was afraid of fire. Similar to how the Purple Moon Era disposed of the carcass by cremation, it might seem like they wanted to burn the carcass to ashes, but was it actually a way to isolate the Devil Fungus?
With that in mind, Tang Ling felt more at ease.
He realized that if it were not for the controlled animals, he might have missed this place.
Based on common sense, even if new plants grew on a burned area, it would be different from the forest around it. The most obvious difference would be the new plants and the new plants would be lower than the forest around it.
This place was the complete opposite. The trees covered the sky, the bushes were lush, and even the weeds were denser than the forest around it.
It could only mean that this place had sufficient nutrients, but it might not be the only reason. With that in mind, Tang Ling drew his knife and started to dig under a tree. Just as he expected, there were seven to eight half-rotten carcasses under the tree.
A terrifying scene unfolded before Tang Ling's eyes. The Devil Fungus controlled the corpses and parasitized the living dead in the middle of the night in human graveyards or remote human villages. The living dead staggered up the mountain in the middle of the night and were used as food and nutrients for the Devil Fungus.
Wanghe County was not the only one that suffered! If it was allowed to continue, this era would be even scarier than the Purple Moon era.
Tang Ling had speculated about the fungus a long time ago. They were not the Devil Fungus of the Purple Moon era. They were a higher life form than the Devil Fungus. They had intellect and consciousness. They could live in symbiosis with the living (Grandfather Han) and control the dead. On top of that, they seemed to be able to listen to orders.
This was extremely frightening. Once the word 'organization' was involved, everything was frightening!
The command center was' Gu Gu ', because it was the parent!
After Tang Ling killed Grandfather Han, Gu Gu would go crazy. From then on, it would dominate the world and that would be its only goal. Other than Grandfather Han, it had no feelings for any other human, and it was impossible for it to have feelings.
Therefore, the highest difficulty of the Dream Domain's Qingxi town mission had appeared — eliminate the Devil Fungus.
From a fundamental point of view, it was impossible. Gu Gu had nurtured countless larvae over the years, and if every larva had the potential to become the mother, sparing any one of them would result in endless disasters.
Think about it, if Tang Ling had to face a sky full of flying spores, even a hundred of him would not be able to eliminate all of them.
Other than that, there was still a doubt. What kind of existence was that monkey-like carcass?
However, it did not matter anymore. Tang Ling had to accept the challenge! There was always a thin line between life and death, was there not?
Tang Ling held the longsword in one hand and the torch in the other as he walked through the dark and scary forest. Every tree and every patch of land was filled with carcasses.
Just like a point with light, the only glimmer of hope.
**
Out of the 20 hours, six hours had passed without Tang Ling realizing it.
The path that Tang Ling walked through was filled with all kinds of animal carcasses. How crazy could it be? In this dense forest, even a bird would be parasitized!
The indiscriminate elimination infuriated Tang Ling. Those who had never been through the apocalypse would never understand the feeling.
Even though it was not for the same reason, Tang Ling felt like he saw the shadow of a civilization's destruction as if the old civilization had collapsed without a sound.
It was just a dream. Tang Ling kept reminding himself that it was just a dream.
However, the wind that blew, the leaves that swayed in the wind, and the unwillingness of the carcasses buried under the trees created a sense of realism for Tang Ling.
The realism was not enough to confuse Tang Ling, but he could not help but enter the real Purple Moon era from time to time.
Humans still existed in the Purple Moon era, and in this dream, if he did not achieve the perfect completion rate, humans would surely be overthrown.
It would be a terrifying outcome. Would the Purple Moon era face the same outcome?
An unknown emotion grew in Tang Ling's heart and it also magnified the flame of anger in his heart. He kept searching for the mountain stream that Grandfather Han mentioned in his monthly diary, but he did not find any mountain stream even after flipping over the entire scorched land.
What kind of terrain was the mountain stream? To be more specific, it was a valley with a stream. Theoretically speaking, it was such an obvious place, so how could it be hidden?
The sky got darker and the crackling of the torch was a little irritating. It made Tang Ling, who had always been calm, a little anxious.
"Where is it hiding?" Tang Ling sat down and took a few deep breaths to calm himself down.
Water seemed to be the only clue at that moment, and the word "hidden" became another clue.
Tang Ling tried his best to combine the two keywords together. Then, he suddenly jumped up from the ground and ran towards a certain spot in the once scorched land.
This place was overgrown with bushes. It looked very inconspicuous. The only noteworthy thing was that there was a hole about half the size of a person in the bushes.
Tang Ling shone the torch at the hole, but it was just a casual light. He realized the hole was not big, so he let it go.
He was restrained by common sense.
According to common sense, a mountain stream was a valley with water and the terrain was downwards. The correct way to search for it was to look for the entire place and walk down the slope. That way, he would naturally find the mountain stream.
It was hard for a normal person to link a hole to a mountain stream, let alone the hole that was at the edge of the scorched land. It was close to a hill and it was heading upwards.
However, what if the mountain stream was hidden behind this weird-shaped hill and he could only find it by going through the hole?
Upon a closer look, the hill was indeed strange. Rather than a hill, it looked more like a half-flattened mound.
Because it had been 20 years, it was covered by dense bushes again. If one did not look closely, one would not notice that the top of the hill was flat.
It reminded Tang Ling of the scene from 20 years ago when the extraterrestrial fell to the ground. It fell on the hill and the things that leaked out were scattered all over the scorched land and the valley behind the hill. Then, it slowly tilted sideways and fell into the valley with a loud bang.
This is the place!
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Tang Ling crouched down and entered the hole that was only half the size of a human.
Not long after he entered, he noticed a giant boulder standing on the side, blocking the path leading into the hole. There was only a small gap between the boulder and the boulder, and he had to lean sideways to get through. Because of that, the hole looked like a small cave from the outside. There was no path at all.
It was also the reason why the soldiers missed the truth back then, and Tang Ling almost missed the truth as well.
After finding the path, Tang Ling's slightly anxious emotions slowly calmed down.
After passing through the gap, the pitch-black cave was wet and filled with giant bats.
Needless to say, the bats were no longer normal bats. After Tang Ling entered, they started to attack him in a frenzy.
Tang Ling did not want to waste the chance. What was the difference between these flying bats and a test of reflexes?
As a matter of fact, Tang Ling heard that the bats were a way to train the reflexes in Safety Sector No. 17. However, the fee was not cheap, so a poor guy like Tang Ling could not enjoy it.
The bats undoubtedly provided Tang Ling with a chance to train his reflexes.
Therefore, Tang Ling swung his longsword and slaughtered his way forward. With his outstanding reflexes, the bats were nothing to him. The only troublesome thing was that he had to burn them every time he killed them.
With his deliberate training, the dark hole slowly gained a glimmer of light.
The glimmer of light gradually brightened up, followed by the sound of wind blowing into the hole.
There were no more bats, and the mountain stream was right in front of him.
Tang Ling was eager to uncover the final answer since he had gone through two tough battles in a row.
With the torch in his hand, he hastened his steps and ran towards the exit of the hole.
However, the moment he stepped out of the hole, before he could even get a glimpse of the mountain stream that Grandfather Han mentioned, a green claw that looked a little scrawny but felt as tough as steel suddenly attacked Tang Ling's face like a gust of wind.
It was so fast that Tang Ling had to lean backward to dodge the attack, but before he could even catch a breath, a green object that was half the size of a human dashed towards him.
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