Niger was even more troublesome. It was a country that was 80% covered in desert. A few decades ago, it was only 50%, but the desert was still growing every year. Sooner or later, the entire country would be desertified, making it unsuitable for human habitation.
They took a plane to Niger, bought a car, and headed towards their destination, Zinder city.
On the way, Fang Moqi repeatedly studied his right eye, switching between four different vision modes at will.
[X-Ray Vision] allowed him to see through obstacles up to 2 meters in diameter.
[Super long range vision] allowed his pupils to change slightly, allowing him to see as clearly as if he was looking at his own hand. The entire world seemed to have reached super high resolution in his eyes.
As for the other two modes, Fang Moqi felt a headache every time he used them.
[Bird's eye view] and 360-degree field of vision without any blind spots. This wasn't just a change in his eyes. No matter how much the human eye was modified, it wouldn't be able to give him this ability. This seemed to have changed the structure of his brain as well.
The four modes couldn't be stacked, so his right eye could only support one vision mode at a time.
As for his left eye, it had been completely blinded for the past two days, its vision had been completely stolen. In other words, if his right eye was used for bird's eye view, he wouldn't be able to see the front of another person's face.
"Look at that, you're blind now …" Lan Mu jokingly told Fang Moqi as he drove.
Fang Moqi casually replied: "That's good, I only lost one eye"
"Do you want to lose both of your eyes?" Lan Mu chuckled.
The more they drove, the more desolate it became. Large swaths of deserted land covered in yellow sand forced them to walk on foot. Along the way, they ran into quite a few local residents, all of whom were thin and had numb eyes.
This country had been in a state of famine for a long time. Perhaps the capital was better off, but the poor villages around the desert were the ones suffering the most. As the desert continued to expand every year, they couldn't rely on agriculture to survive.
As soon as Lan Mu's group set foot in this country, they received a baptism of gazes.
"The anomaly is in the desert about 20 kilometers away, in that direction …" Lan Mu said.
Fang Moqi carried his backpack and walked towards the refugees, saying: "I'll go ask"
After Fang Moqi took out the food and cash from his backpack, the eyes of all the refugees around him were filled with pleasant surprise. Coupled with his fluent dialect, he quickly asked for information about the anomaly's location.
Fang Moqi walked back and said, "That's where the rebel army is. They've been entrenched at the edge of the desert for more than ten years. They've been robbing the people at the bottom and occasionally attacking the cities for supplies …"
Lan Mu was stunned. "Another rebel army?"
Fang Moqi said, "Yes, the perennial famine gave birth to many bandits. They were dissatisfied with the rule and declared themselves kings. Even the government can't do anything about it. "
Just as Lan Mu was about to speak, Fang Moqi stopped him and continued.
"If the anomaly is there, I think I can guess what kind of characteristic it is"
He analyzed: "Just now, I heard something suspicious from the local residents. The government had tried to encircle and suppress this rebel army many times. At first, the rebel army was completely routed, but ever since two months ago, every official attack would be met with a sandstorm. Furthermore, the sandstorm was always advantageous to the rebel army, causing the regular army to lose to the sandstorm many times"
Fang Moqi spoke with certainty: "That's too suspicious. In the eyes of the locals, this is the desert protecting the rebel army, or rather, the government's luck is bad. I think this must be a characteristic of the anomaly "
In the past two months, the government had attacked the rebel army a total of four times, all of which were repelled by the sandstorm without exception. Is it really because of the weather? That's too much of a coincidence.
"What are you going to do?" Lan Mu asked.
Fang Moqi replied: "Of course I'm going to infiltrate the rebel army's camp, find the target, and retrieve the anomaly"
But then he stopped Lan Mu and said: "You don't need to go, I'm going to rely on myself this time"
Lan Mu was shocked: "Are you sure you can do it?"
Fang Moqi replied: "Of course, if you don't do anything, you'll just be watching the show anyway. You said it yourself, we have to try our best to hide the anomaly, it's more convenient for me to do this alone. Are you going to sneak in with me and climb over the walls and windows? "
Lan Mu smiled, Fang Moqi was right, if they wanted to cultivate a true containment elite, of course he couldn't go with them.
In the end, Fang Moqi went to the desert alone to retrieve the target, leaving his bag with the refugees while he got into the car and drove to a deserted corner.
His bag was full of food and water, seeing that he didn't want them, a group of hungry people rushed forward.
Lan Mu disguised himself as a vampire and sent two bats to observe, but it was too far away for his psychic power to see.
"So it really is stealth …"
Fang Moqi's vision was wide, and his already powerful stealth ability was even more enhanced. The entire camp was within his field of vision, easily bypassing the sentries.
Those that couldn't were ambushed in advance, easily subdued without being able to utter a sound.
Just like that, he quickly approached the rebel leader's location.
Lan Mu watched, wondering how Fang Moqi could determine if it was an anomaly.
As soon as he thought that, Fang Moqi took out his bow and shot an arrow into the sky.
The arrow fell from the sky and landed in the middle of the camp, where a group of people were sitting on the ground.
Not a single person was hit, the arrow was stuck in the ground.
This no doubt alarmed everyone, causing them to look up with their guns in hand.
Of course, there were no enemies in the sky, so Fang Moqi took this chance to shoot an arrow.
"So that's how it works, no matter who the arrow hits, the person with the anomaly will activate their ability" Lan Mu silently thought.
But that wasn't the case, as one person was killed by the arrow, the others panicked and shouted that there was an enemy attack.
"That's not enough, at least the mastermind needs to feel threatened" Lan Mu thought.
Fang Moqi was obviously thinking the same thing, as he took out his gun and fired at an inconspicuous tent.
"Bang bang bang!"
"Boom!"
The tent abruptly exploded. It turned out that the tent was filled with explosives, most likely the rebel's ammunition depot.
The flames of the explosion ignited one tent after another, as the flying shells and metal sheets became lethal weapons, causing the rebel soldiers nearby to scream and fall.
His [X-Ray Vision] allowed Fang Moqi to easily find the ammunition depot, as the camp had no secrets in his eyes.
The rebel soldiers fired randomly, searching for Fang Moqi's whereabouts, but Fang Moqi's field of vision was extremely wide, so he kept moving around in circles to avoid them.
Just like Hawkeye, he used his field of vision to deal with the enemy.
As the rebel soldiers were constantly being killed by the unpredictable bullets and arrows, a black man in the crowd finally panicked.
He ran into a tent, lifted the felt cloth on the ground, and started to dig at the sand with his bare hands.
A black woman was lying on the bed, wearing revealing clothing, was a bit scared of the gunfire outside and asked: "Bazha, did the army attack again?"
Bazha's expression was cold, but he didn't answer and quickly dug out a sand sculpture.
It was a strange sculpture made of golden sand that was glued together for some unknown reason. It had the head of a crocodile, and the body of a human with seven arms and eight legs, like an evil god.
Bazha pulled the woman over, pulled out a knife, and plunged it into her neck.
The woman panicked, not knowing why Bazha suddenly wanted to kill her.
Blood gushed out and splashed on the sand sculpture. Bazha muttered a few words in his native language.
At this time, a bat quietly crept in and saw this scene.
Lan Mu silently thought: "This should be an anomaly, right? So it's a sacrifice? "
Sure enough, a second later, a gust of wind blew, causing sand to fly everywhere.
A sandstorm that blotted out the sky suddenly appeared, enveloping the entire camp within a kilometer radius, causing people to cover their faces and scream as they hid inside.
People inside the sandstorm couldn't even open their eyes, their vision was severely affected, and even the sun was dimmed.
Against ordinary people, the sandstorm was indeed powerful, but Fang Moqi wasn't an ordinary person.
The yellow sand didn't affect him at all, so his vision was still clear.
Fang Moqi's right eye had x-ray vision, so he could see the target even with his eyes closed, so he naturally saw the scene of Bazha's sacrifice.
In the sandstorm, everyone was covering their heads and running away like rats, except for Fang Moqi. Only Bazha wasn't affected, holding a gun and looking for traces of the enemy.
The anomaly's sandstorm didn't affect him, but it also didn't seem to give him any special abilities.
Fang Moqi was hiding behind cover, so he could clearly see him.
Bows and arrows were useless in the sandstorm, so Fang Moqi raised his gun and carefully aimed. Seeing that the other party didn't notice, he directly fired.
"Bang!"
The bullet left a bloody hole in Bazha's head, killing him on the spot.
Not only was Fang Moqi stunned, even Lan Mu couldn't believe it.
"He died just like that?"
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