"Hello, the city ahead is Nanmu City. Entry is not allowed for the time being. Please go back."
Not long after seeing the big tree reaching the sky and the ground, Su Chen's car was stopped.
The people who stopped the car were not members of the army, but local police officers.
It is estimated that the military forces here are now invested in dealing with the tree and the people controlled by the tree. They have no time to control the outside world and can only ask the local police to cooperate.
Su Chen didn't say much and took out the pass Bai Cha gave him.
The police officer took it and took a look, then said that he needed to ask his superiors for instructions and asked Su Chen to wait for a while.
Not long after, he hurriedly trotted back and signaled his colleagues to move the roadblock. At the same time, he returned the pass to Su Chen and said with a sincere expression:
"Thank you for coming to support our Kusunoki City."
Support Kusunoki City?
Su Chen didn't know what kind of pass Bai Cha had obtained or what kind of identity he had been assigned. Hearing this, he could only nod and smile:
"Just trying my best."
After that, he continued moving along the highway.
Fortunately, the highway here has been cleared. There are no chaotic vehicles blocking the road all the way to the city, and the road conditions are pretty good.
After passing five or six more checkpoints, he finally arrived in the urban area of Nanmu City.
The big trees that could be seen dozens of kilometers away before were now huge enough to block out the sky and the sun.
That kind of huge sense of oppression, if ordinary people suddenly saw it, they would probably be suffocated.
Fortunately, Su Chen didn't feel anything about this. His own strength was enough to offset this negative effect.
However, after getting closer, the spiritual pressure emanating from the tree's huge trunk gave him a rough idea of the tree's strength.
Foundation building period!
Almost the same as his current strength.
And Su Chen could clearly feel that the aura of this thing was still growing.
I'm afraid it won't be long before we reach the middle stage of foundation building.
This discovery once again confirmed his previous speculation.
He had previously thought that the appearance of this tree was abnormal. There was either something wrong with it, or there was some external force that caused it to become like this.
After arriving here, Su Chen was basically sure that there was definitely some unknown force that made it happen like this.
Because the concentration of spiritual energy in Nanmu City is comparable to that of the Magic City, and is far inferior to Nanshan, which is rich in spiritual energy.
But with Su Chen's current strength, even with the concentration of spiritual energy on Nanshan Mountain, his cultivation would be half the result with half the effort, completely unable to keep up with his absorption speed.
With the heaven-defying qualifications of his innate Taoist body, coupled with the assistance of various elixirs produced by the system, it would be impossible for him to practice as fast as this tree in Nanshan.
As I said before, cultivation also requires the conservation of spiritual energy.
How much spiritual energy you absorb will increase your strength.
It is impossible to say that there is no need for spiritual energy but the strength is soaring.
The fact that this tree's strength has skyrocketed in this environment is obviously not caused by its own special features, but by external forces supplying it with massive amounts of spiritual energy.
Of course, it cannot be said that it has nothing magical about it.
Otherwise, there are so many trees in Nanmu City, why did it suddenly grow so big?
But without external help, it would be as magical as ordinary mutated animals and plants. It would not be as big as it is now. It has even been certified by the system as the forbidden eternal tree of doomsday.
If we could find out the reason why this tree suddenly grew so much...
If you come to Nanmu City this time, you will not only get a lot of money from the system, but you may also get some incredible opportunities.
Can't you make money?
With this thought in mind, Su Chen continued to drive forward.
However, as the vehicle approached the tree, there was finally a hint of war in the area.
Although there are no ruins around, the smell of gunpowder can be clearly smelled.
And almost every once in a while, he could hear the roar of artillery fire, and could vaguely see several red fireballs accompanied by black smoke exploding from the huge tree trunk from time to time.
"Friends, the battle area is ahead. You are not allowed to enter without a pass."
When he was about to approach, another checkpoint blocked Su Chen's way.
He could see the military camp not far ahead, and he estimated that this was the last stop.
He didn't feel annoyed at all, and still gave the pass prepared by Bai Cha as before.
But what surprised him was that after the sentry took away the pass this time, what came back was not the same sentry as before, but a middle-aged man who was obviously wearing an officer's uniform.
"Hello, I am Zhou Cheng, chief of staff of the XXX synthetic battalion. Are you the colleague from the special abilities department who came to support you? Thank you for coming to Nanmu City!"
Department of superpowers?
Su Chen was stunned for a moment.
The pass that Bai Cha got for him was naturally not a piece of paper, but a card like an ID card with no obvious markings on it.
He didn't actually figure out what identity Bai Cha had assigned him along the way. Judging from the performance of the sentries along the way, he guessed that the identity should be high.
I really didn't expect that he was directly assigned a position in the recently established supernatural department.
The so-called Superpower Department is actually an evolutionary organization that was officially established only a few days ago.
This kind of identity can also be obtained, and the energy behind white tea seems to be greater than he imagined.
Thoughts were spinning in his heart, but Su Chen didn't show it at all.
Dangji shook the other person's extended hand and said:
"Consultant Zhou is too polite. I'm just trying my best."
"Mr. Su is too humble. Come in quickly. Mr. Su may not be familiar with the situation here. Let me introduce it to you."
Zhou Cheng's enthusiasm made Su Chen confused.
Although people with super powers are probably quite rare these days.
But this is also the chief of staff of a combined battalion. The scale of a modern combined battalion is much larger than that of a previous regiment.
A proper mid- to high-level officer, okay?
Wouldn't this attitude towards him, a person with powers, be a little too polite?
But before he could think about it, Zhou Chengcheng had already pulled him to a building similar to a shopping mall hall.
There are no products visible inside now. There is a large sand table in the middle, surrounded by many electronic equipment, and it has become a command center.
At this moment, there was a circle of people surrounding the big sand table. Most of them were wearing military uniforms, but there were also a dozen people wearing casual clothes like Su Chen, who seemed a little out of place with the atmosphere inside.
"These are all... superpowers?"
Su Chen looked at the people in casual clothes, and his keen spiritual sense immediately sensed the spiritual pressure on their bodies, and his eyes flashed involuntarily.
Judging from the situation, unlike him, a "personnel from the Department of Supernatural Powers" who happened to come here, the officials seemed to be taking the initiative to allocate superpowers here that they could command.
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