Zhang Xiaoman's words immediately made the four members of the Wildfire Team overjoyed.
Why are everyone working so hard?
The belief to protect mankind and fight against evil spirits?
Maybe, but definitely not all.
They work so hard for the road to transcendence.
At least for the four people who are bounty hunters, they will pay more attention to reality.
Zhang Xiaoman naturally knows this, and he does not expect to be able to make these people work for the organization unconditionally like fanatic believers.
Some things still need to be adjusted slowly.
Since you have something to ask for, I can satisfy you. The premise is that you must be obedient and be used by me.
For different people, different methods must be used. These are what my mother taught him.
Entering the forest with Weiss and walking towards the hidden base, Zhang Xiaoman closed his eyes slightly. When he opened them again, they had turned into a golden light.
This is the new ability he just mastered, spiritual vision.
Weiss on the side was shocked when he saw this scene, and secretly wondered what the Star Lord's ability was.
He knew the spirit detection technique, and even just yesterday, he had blessed himself with this ability through the spirit possession scroll.
But the spirit detection technique showed that kind of silvery-white light, and what the Star Master saw in his eyes was actually a bright golden light.
The feeling is just like the blazing golden eyes of Sun Wukong in myths and legends, which are more sacred and majestic than silver.
Moreover, under normal circumstances, gold is always more advanced than silver.
The thoughts in his mind just turned slightly, and Weiss was immediately relieved.
The person in front of me is the leader of a mysterious extraordinary organization. The abilities he uses are naturally more powerful than ordinary extraordinary people. Isn't this a matter of course?
In this way, with just one meeting and one method, Weiss was already impressed by the ability he showed.
Looking at Zhang Xiaoman again, he saw a wave of dark energy two hundred meters ahead from the first moment he opened his spiritual vision.
He knew that must be where the base was, the stone with red patterns that Weiss mentioned.
The two shuttled through the jungle at a very fast speed.
Even if Zhang Xiaoman doesn't need physical enhancement, his physical fitness has already reached the peak of human beings.
This is naturally the result of the Flower of the Sun.
It's a pity that this permanently increased physical strength cannot be reflected in the personal data panel.
The two of them quickly arrived at the base, and the appearance of the place appeared in front of Zhang Xiaoman at close range.
"Sure enough, this is the source of mutant beasts and aberrations..."
He walked to a corpse and took a look at it, and then carefully looked at the surrounding scene, but his heart was not very happy, but more solemn.
Because it's too small here.
Although compared to many formal laboratories, the floor space here is not far behind. To say it is small is a bit too much.
But compared to the mutant beasts that appear from time to time around the world, this place is obviously not enough to see.
When such a situation occurs, there are only two possibilities.
First, what they see now is not the entire appearance of the base. It is possible that its huge main body is hidden underground, just like the Covenant.
The second one is that this is just a branch base. In a place like this, the mysterious organization has more than one hiding place, and there are even similar bases all over the world.
Compared with the first situation, the second situation is more likely.
If there really was an underground base here, it would be absolutely impossible for the other party to just place that stone on the ground.
Underground, Zhang Xiaoman's spiritual vision did not detect any fluctuations in dark energy.
"Woooooooo..."
While he was thinking, a voice suddenly sounded in his ear.
Turning around to look, it turned out that Jiujiu was shrinking his ears and looking warily in the direction of the stone.
"Huh? Can you sense things there too?"
Zhang Xiaoman originally just asked casually, but he didn't know that Jiujiu immediately started chirping after him.
The little guy had a disgusted expression on his face, as if he didn't like the rocks over there, and while shouting, he stretched out a paw and pointed at Weiss beside him.
Zhang Xiaoman listened to the tweets and looked up at Weiss from time to time. The latter was inevitably a little confused when he saw this, and there was also a trace of uneasiness coming from nowhere.
"Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp!"
After Jiujiu finished speaking, he looked unhappy. It seemed that he really didn't like that kind of smell.
Zhang Xiaoman touched its head to show comfort, then looked at Weiss, and his first words startled him.
"Jiujiu told me that you have been infected."
Weiss never expected that Star Lord would suddenly say such words to him.
He opened his mouth, and a syllable or two came out from his throat, but for a moment he was speechless.
"Infected...infected...I'm infected..."
This was a thought that kept swirling in his mind, almost taking over his mind.
"What exactly does the infection that the Star Master means... is it possible that I will become that kind of aberrant monster in the future...?"
When he thought of the appearance of Xizal's group of people, Weiss couldn't help but feel despair in his heart. He would rather die than become such a monster.
"Have you ever touched the rocks there before?"
Zhang Xiaoman asked.
Weiss looked a little dazed. After being stunned for a moment, he answered aloud:
"Uh... uh... yes, I opened the door and saw the stone at first sight, but I closed the door immediately and didn't look much..."
Zhang Xiaoman frowned and thought for a moment, then looked at the stone not far away that was nearly as tall as a person and said:
"You are indeed cautious enough, but this stone is different from the previous fragments. Its dark energy fluctuations are much stronger than that of the small stone. Although you have only been in close contact with it, it is still Enough to infect you."
Weiss was silent. He was no longer a newcomer. Although he was in awe of life and death, he had already been mentally prepared.
Now, after the initial panic, he gradually calmed down and knew that he was not completely hopeless.
After all, his boss is still around, and judging from the other party's reaction, it doesn't seem like there is nothing he can do.
Of course Zhang Xiaoman has a way. To be precise, it's not that he has a way, but the tweet on his shoulder.
"You don't have to worry. Jiujiu just told me that it can purify the pollution in your body."
He said and asked Jiujiu to purify Weiss. The little fox immediately ran in front of the latter and hovered over his eyes.
A mysterious wave spread out, and a burst of blue light appeared in Chiujiu's eyes, and the flame-shaped mark on its forehead also became brighter.
Weiss looked into the eyes of this tiny little fox and felt that his mind was completely empty. It seemed that the whole world was only filled with the eyes in front of him and the flame pattern in the middle.
Suddenly, a ball of blue flames surged in the bottom of my heart, and at the same time, a weak red breath escaped, and then was burned by the blue flames, turning into nothingness.
Weiss felt relaxed all over, as if the burden he was carrying was instantly lifted, and his whole body felt much more relaxed.
It was at this time that he reacted belatedly.
It turned out that his body was already feeling slightly uncomfortable just now, but for some unknown reason, he couldn't feel it at all.
Now that I'm back to normal, I suddenly feel a sense of relief.
"It turns out that this is mental pollution. It can actually affect the physical level through the mind. I just don't know if my spiritual star ring is immune..."
Zhang Xiaoman felt relieved when he saw that the other party was cured.
This is also the first time he has come into contact with the so-called mental pollution, and he doesn't understand it yet. However, the legendary pet Jiujiu is indeed powerful enough to directly purify the pollution effects on others.
"Look around to see if there is anything missing. I'll go in and look at the stone."
Zhang Xiaoman said with concern.
Weiss just felt refreshed now, as if he had never been so relaxed before.
His mood at the moment was as if he had suddenly come from hell to heaven. He originally thought that he was doomed, but he didn't expect that he would be resolved by the boss so easily.
Recalling what Star Lord said at the beginning that he was not sure about the cure, Weiss couldn't help but secretly thought that he was too naive.
It can be seen from the relaxed posture of the other party that this kind of desperate situation that is completely unsolvable for him is just a small problem in front of the boss. It only needs the pet to move his eyes to solve it, and he does not even need to take action himself.
Star Lord's so-called lack of confidence is too modest.
After agreeing, Wes happily went to check it out. He suddenly discovered that hugging thighs was such a pleasant thing.
Zhang Xiaoman came to the wooden house, and through his spiritual observation, he could clearly see the strange stone inside that was emitting dark energy fluctuations.
After knowing that Jiujiu's ability could remove the infection attached to this stone, he stopped caring a lot. In order to verify his spiritual star ring, he opened the door and walked in.
What you see is a mess. Inside this wooden house is a reinforced laboratory, and in the center is a large pure white container.
At this time, a large area of the container was damaged, revealing a black stone as tall as a person inside.
Zhang Xiaoman did not go in immediately, but asked Jiujiu to see if he had any symptoms of contamination.
"Chirp!"
"Well, okay, it seems that the spiritual attack immunity effect of the Spirit Star Ring contains this kind of pollution..."
After receiving a positive reply from Jiujiu, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. The ultimate prop was indeed the ultimate prop. With the property of being immune to mental attacks, it would be much easier to deal with these things in the future.
Zhang Xiaoman then walked into the room, approached the black stone and began to observe it carefully.
This stone is a cone, and like the fragments seen before, it is completely black, with many red lines that cannot be seen clearly on the stone.
Most of the milky-white container around the stone has been broken. From the appearance, it seems to have been scratched by some sharp claws.
It was also full of potholes and seemed to have been damaged.
In addition, there are seven or eight corpses in black clothes in the room. They are all wearing weapons and equipment. They should be the base defense force that Weiss mentioned.
Based on the traces on the scene, it is not difficult to see that there must have been some kind of attack here, and the attacker was most likely the mutant beast they were studying.
Suddenly, a picture appeared in Zhang Xiaoman's mind.
In the biochemical base hidden in the jungle, a mutant beast suddenly lost control, frantically destroying the surrounding buildings, and even released the rest of the monsters.
The researchers were killed by the creatures they were studying. When these security personnel saw that the situation was out of control, they rushed here as soon as possible and protected the black stone.
In the end, human power was still no match for the mutant beasts. The monsters rushed in, killing everyone here, and destroying the milky white container containing the stone, and then turned and left.
Basically, this should be the case. Of course, other possibilities are not ruled out, but this guess is more logical.
Zhang Xiaoman looked around for a week, then carefully observed the stone, and began to think about how to deal with it later.
But while he was thinking, his eyes inadvertently glanced at the corpses on the ground and found that there seemed to be some kind of pattern engraved on their chests.
Zhang Xiaoman guessed that it might be the badge of this group of people, just like the Starry Eyes of the Star Alliance.
He walked over and turned the man over. He was an ordinary-looking white man, about thirty or forty years old.
The pattern on his chest is outlined by simple lines and looks like a mouse's head at first glance.
"mouse……"
Zhang Xiaoman whispered softly, remembering what happened in Gaul, and thought that these people really liked mice.
He moved his gaze downwards and immediately discovered some other strange patterns on the man's clothes.
These patterns look like water droplets on the outside, but the shapes of the water droplets are different, and the contents inside are also different.
"This is……"
His eyes suddenly shrank, and a stream of information suddenly appeared in his mind.
"This is actually a kind of writing!"
Zhang Xiaoman looked surprised.
The strange water droplets in front of me turned out to be a kind of strange writing.
Now that he has mastered all languages, he can theoretically understand all the languages he sees.
Therefore, these patterns that looked like strange water droplets to others, in his eyes, were words that contained some special meaning.
After interpreting the piece of information in his mind, Zhang Xiaoman immediately knew what it meant. He couldn't help but gently opened his mouth and spit out four words:
"Plague Church."
