Meng Chao felt his teeth clench.
Wanting to stop a group of extremely fanatical warmongers from launching an unavoidable war was an extremely arduous task in itself.
And compared to his previous life, there was one more interfering factor.
It was Lu Siya, who had been kidnapped by the monster mastermind.
'This is bad.
'High-grade orcs are already troublesome enough.
'If Lu Siya escapes into Turan Lake, won't it be like a weasel falling into a chicken's nest?
'Who knows whether it will cause an even bigger mess than in my previous life?!
'No, once I'm brought out, I have to use every second I have to get Lei Zongchao's help and try to stop Lu Siya before she passes through the guillotine!'
Meng Chao looked at the towering cliffs on both sides of the river and made his decision.
'Wait …'
'Why are there such tall mountains and cliffs on both sides of the Red Dragon River?'
Meng Chao's pupils shrank.
He remembered that the terrain on both sides of the Red Dragon River was rather flat when he traveled from Hidden Fog to Dragon City. At most, there were only a few small hills. He did not run into any majestic or dangerous mountains.
Besides, after decades of construction, the two sides of the Red Dragon River had been turned into new economic development zones along the river. There were factories and ports everywhere.
There was an endless stream of fishing boats, ferries, patrol boats, and armored airships on the river.
He had been drifting for a long time, so he should have seen people a long time ago.
But why did the mountains on both sides of the river seem to be getting steeper and more desolate?
Meng Chao's eyes went wide. He struggled madly without caring about anything and finally managed to drink a mouthful of river water.
He immediately noticed that it was not Red Dragon River's water!
Since it contained unique minerals, Red Dragon River's water was slightly red, and when he drank it, there was a faint smell of rust.
But the river water here was slightly yellow. When he drank it, it tasted fishy and sweet.
'This is …'
Meng Chao's mind raced, and he instantly understood what was going on.
He was heavily injured during the fight against the aquatic monsters, and his mind was muddled, so he missed the most crucial junction where the two rivers intersected.
This was not Red Dragon River, which led straight to Dragon City.
Instead, it was Tiger's Raging River, which cut through Monster Mountain Range and headed straight for the high-grade orcs' territory, Turan Lake!
Before he could snap out of his daze from this shocking reality, the river suddenly shrank.
It was like a funnel, and it became incredibly narrow.
Without warning, the river suddenly sped up.
Meng Chao heard a deafening roar and saw fog rising from the end of the canyon to cover the sky.
This was the door that connected Dragon City to the outside world — Tiger Killing Gorge.
In front of him was the super waterfall that had a drop of more than 1,000 meters, the Guillotine!
…
In the beginning, Meng Chao and Lu Siya's disappearance did not attract any attention.
Everyone knew that the two of them were inseparable cultivation partners. In the past, they would often go to the wilderness to cultivate in the rain and thunder.
They were all adults. As long as they paid attention to their safety, even if they cultivated for three days and three nights, it wouldn't be a problem.
Hence, even Lu Siya's father, Lu Fanghui, only frowned and snorted coldly when he learned that the two of them had disappeared early in the morning.
It was only after noon, when the sky cleared up after the rain, that people gradually realized that something was wrong.
At that moment, the extreme weather was over, and the spirit energy magnetic field interference around Hidden Fog Unique Domain gradually disappeared.
As the spirit energy magnetic field environment became more stable, wireless communication was restored. Even the communication base in the depths of the sinkhole could instantly transmit a large amount of information to those outside Hidden Fog Unique Domain.
But Meng Chao and Lu Siya's portable communicators disappeared without a trace, as if they had disappeared into the sea.
No matter how many times everyone called them, they did not respond.
This was incredibly abnormal.
Lu Siya knew that the Deity Realm Meeting had ended, Sky Pillar Corporation had gotten a lot of benefits, and her father was the CEO of Sky Pillar Minerals, so he would definitely rush to Hidden Fog Unique Domain to inspect the crystal mine.
Lu Siya was a mine explorer, so there was no reason for her to disappear for an entire day at such a crucial moment.
Lu Fanghui instantly became nervous.
On Meng Chao's side, Railway Cannon Long Feijun and the other young officers of the Red Dragon Army, who were familiar with him, also felt that something was off.
They had made an appointment with Meng Chao to research machine martial arts together.
Meng Chao had always been punctual. Even if there was a sudden change in plans, he would leave a message beforehand.
He realized that something might have happened to the two of them.
Both sides immediately sent out a joint search and rescue team.
But the progress of the search and rescue team was very slow.
After nearly a month of extreme weather, mountain torrents, and mudslides wreaked havoc, it completely changed the terrain of Hidden Fog Unique Domain. Most of the maps the humans had drawn were useless.
Countless ravines marked on the maps turned into swamps filled with mud.
A thin layer of moss also quickly grew on the swamps.
At first glance, it looked like green flat land.
If anyone was the slightest bit careless, they would step on air, and they would sink into the mud.
Besides, the extreme weather had just passed, and there was a limit to the number of people stationed in Hidden Fog Unique Domain.
If they wanted to rely on a search and rescue team consisting of only dozens of people to find two people in the vast forest, it would be the same as searching for a needle in a haystack.
The search and rescue lasted for seven days.
When a large number of superhumans, including the Deity Realm superhumans, joined the search and rescue team, Sky Pillar Corporation and the Red Dragon Army even mobilized more than ten thousand unmanned aerial vehicles and thinking vehicles without sparing any cost.
Only then did they find the unconscious Lu Siya in a crack filled with mud in the depths of a col in the mountains.
At that moment, Lu Siya was as thin as a stick. She was covered in wounds, and her body was burning hot.
It was as if she had just gone through a difficult and bloody battle. Due to overexertion, she had gone through spirit energy deviation and was on the verge of death.
The terrified search and rescue team members quickly sent her to a private hospital under Sky Pillar Corporation.
The results of a comprehensive examination showed that her entire body was covered in dense wounds that looked like a baby's lips, but that was still a small matter.
Lu Siya was also infected with dozens of Other World viruses, including the incredibly dangerous super zombie virus and a few brand new ancient viruses discovered in Ruins No. 2.
It was only because of her powerful immune system that the viruses did not break out and turn her into a deformed and twisted monster.
Aside from that, her brain suffered a severe concussion, and it was so swollen that it looked like it was about to burst out of her skull.
Based on what the best neurosurgeons in Dragon City said, "I've never seen such a severe concussion before. It's as if someone pointed at her brain and fired a railway gun at her."
Even if she was cured, there was a high chance that all sorts of sequelae would be left behind.
Fortunately, after they received the legacy of the monster civilization, Dragon City's gene modification technology and virus interference technology had improved by leaps and bounds.
Zombie virus interference, which was once regarded as an incurable disease, now had an effective medicine. Of course, it was an effective medicine that was worth cities.
Lu Fanghui loved his daughter, so he did everything he could to cure Lu Siya's injuries.
The head of the Lu family, Lu Zhongqi, was a Deity Realm superhuman. He did not care about the heavy injuries he suffered when he fought against the monster mastermind to protect the outstanding member of the third generation of the Lu family. He wanted to protect the Lu family's hope of becoming the leader of the nine great families.
The Red Dragon Army continued searching for three days and three nights, but they still did not find any traces of Meng Chao.
Instead, they found a lot of signs of a fierce battle around God Fog Mountain. There were also Blood Flower spores and the charred remains of the strange green tide.
They could only pour a lot of medical resources into Lu Siya and hope that she would wake up soon and tell everyone what happened on God Fog Mountain that night.
After half a month of treatment that spared no expense, Lu Siya finally opened her eyes miraculously.
In the beginning, she was still in a really weak state.
Her fever of more than forty degrees Celsius did not subside. Aside from moving her eyes slightly, she could not do anything else. She could not even chew or swallow. She could only inject gene medicine and high-calorie nutritional fluid into her body through intravenous injection and high-pressure osmosis.
But no matter what, she was an outstanding member of the younger generation in Dragon City. She was a powerful existence who had reached the peak of Heaven Realm before she was thirty years old. The activity of her cells was more than ten times stronger than that of superhumans of the same age.
She relied on the meticulous treatment from a Deity Realm superhuman, a large amount of cultivation resources, and her incredibly strong desire to live.
Bit by bit, she filled up her withered cells and dried up spirit meridians.
Bit by bit, she repaired her cracked wounds, causing the ugly scabs to fall off.
Bit by bit, she used bright spirit flames to burn the bacteria and viruses that had invaded her body.
Her skin shone with a crystalline luster once more.
Her withered and yellow hair fell off, and in its place was her black and beautiful hair.
When she was dug out of the mud, her cheeks, which had sunken in and were as pale as snow, gradually returned to their former plumpness and the alluring red hue.
However, she did not know whether it was because she had come to understand the secrets of life and death while she was unconscious, but her eyes seemed to have become different from before.
They were like a pair of black crystals that had clear layers, were transparent, and were unfathomable.
Sometimes, she would lie on the bed for an entire day without moving and stare at the ceiling in a daze.
Her gaze was incredibly profound, as if she could pierce through the sky and see the dazzling stars beyond the sealed atmosphere.
Sometimes, a faint layer of mist would appear in her eyes.
Her consciousness seemed to have sunk into a complicated maze that had no exit.
Even though she had regained the ability to speak and write …
She had lost all her memories of that night.
She could not remember just what happened to her and Meng Chao.
She did not know where Meng Chao went either.
It was not strange for a superhuman who had gone through spirit energy deviation and had their brains severely damaged to have any sort of sequelae.
Short-term amnesia was just one of the mildest symptoms.
After half a month of treatment, the most authoritative medical specialists and virologists in Dragon City conducted the final round of tests.
They were certain that Lu Siya had no reaction to dozens of viruses in the Other World.
Even when her brain was stimulated by electricity, she went through the most extreme mental strength test, and her mental strength index remained between 90 and 110.
This meant that both her mind and body had recovered to their original state.
She could end her isolation treatment and return to normal society.
Because Meng Chao's whereabouts were very important to the various forces of power and her.
After obtaining her, Lu Fanghui, and Lv Zhongqi's agreement, before she was discharged, the best psychiatrists in Dragon City performed hypnosis on Lu Siya using a secret mind technique.
They used their mental power to gently touch her cerebral cortex to relax her tense nerves, and while she was unconscious, she told them everything that happened on God Fog Mountain the night before the storm subsided.
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