Fantasy Game: Infinite City

A few hours later, inside the radiation anomaly area.

This is a strange place, as if someone cut various geographical environments into pieces and then pieced them together randomly. There are several not very big lakes here, but next to the lakes are not plains, but dense forests, and in some places in the middle of the forest, there are muddy swamps, and the gaps in the swamps are extremely cold, even freezing some rocks into solid ice.

In these unusual patchwork environments, almost all plants, rocks, minerals, even swamps and lakes, are glowing and emitting strong radiation. The colorful lights form light pollution, but fortunately these lights are not dazzling.

"My clothes have been burned by the radiation, and you...oh, forget it."

Gloria's clothes started to burn as she walked because of the strong radiation in the environment. She wanted to ask Han Zu about the situation, but when she turned around, she found that Han Zu was using the burning clothes to light a cigarette.

"I'm curious, how come you didn't get the cigarette wet when you were in the swamp? Where did you put it? Or do you have telekinesis or some storage space or something?"

"I'm not a cultivator. I just put the cigarette box into my muscles."

"what?"

"like this."

Gloria looked at Han Zu. The muscles on his chest suddenly opened to the sides, revealing a small area. Then he put the cigarette box in there, and the muscles and skin closed again, returning to normal as if nothing had happened.

"Uh, don't tell me you did this for..."

"That's not the case. I can also put living creatures into my body. I can use this method to quickly absorb energy and flesh and blood for recovery. I can also use it to protect my own people, just like driving a mecha. Of course, I can also put some consumables and weapons like this, and use it for stealth. And the scanning device you brought is also stored in this way."

The muscles on Han Zu's shoulders opened to both sides, revealing the scanning device that Han Zu had taken away during the previous battle in the swamp.

"Then won't you accidentally burn these things when you use the power of fire?"

"In the beginning, I did, but now that I am very proficient in the use of fire, I can control it very well."

The energy concentration in this environment is much higher than the several areas Han Zu had sensed before, but now Gloria no longer appears to be in a drunken state. After this period of "training", Gloria can already independently enhance her adaptability to energy.

"Give me the scanning device, I want to see the scan results around here."

"Give."

Taking the scanning device from Han Zu, Gloria checked the readings on it. The radiation level had long exceeded the danger level. No living creatures could be scanned in the surrounding environment. There were only rocks, minerals, and a very small number of special plants. Among them was a plant that looked almost indistinguishable from the Queen of Flowers, but the difference was that this plant had a stem as thick as a tree trunk, and there were some fruits growing on it. They looked very strange, with no rules at all, and each fruit looked different, like a wrong sticker.

"With the intensity of radiation at this location, it's really... "

"Crack! Crunch crunch crunch..."

"..."

Gloria, who was looking down at the scanning device, wanted to discuss this special plant with Han Zu, but before she looked up, she heard the sound of someone eating something. Gloria knew what was happening without even looking up. It must be Han Zu eating something again.

"how do you feel?"

"It's awfully sweet. But it's cool, so it should be good for cooking canned food. Kachi, do you want one?"

It was not known whether Gloria was influenced by Han Zu or her own brain had short-circuited, but this time she did not refute Han Zu. Instead, she picked a strange-shaped wild fruit and took a bite. It was indeed as Han Zu said, this fruit was too sweet, even a little bitter, but the taste was indeed very refreshing.

After this period of "travel", through questioning Han Zu and her own feelings about her body, Gloria discovered that she seemed to have "inherited" Han Zu's ability to transform energy, but she was not as strong as Han Zu, and could not replenish energy for others like Han Zu. However, Gloria was still very strong in absorbing energy.

Through the conversation with Han Zu on the road, Gloria learned that Han Zu's behavior of eating indiscriminately was not entirely due to Han Zu's weird thinking process, but out of a strange instinct. According to Han Zu's recollection, anything he inexplicably wanted to eat or absorb generally carried energy, and no matter what this energy was, Han Zu's body could absorb it completely without exception.

Based on the discussion, Han Zu speculated that Gloria, whose physical characteristics and energy features are almost identical to Han Zu's, should theoretically be able to achieve this kind of adaptability to energy. This is one of the reasons why Gloria also ate that strange wild fruit this time.

If it were when the two of them had just entered the underground world, Gloria thought that she should be able to directly feel the energy contained in this wild fruit. However, perhaps because of her current adaptability to energy and the fact that the energy she can store has increased several times, Gloria now has no feeling other than taste. However, she can be sure of one thing, that is, this thing with excessive radiation will not do her any harm at all.

The incident passed quickly, and the two continued to move towards the center of the radiation-exceeding area, which was the location where the scanner found the abnormally high energy concentration. The further they went in, the greater the radiation around them became. The only things around them were minerals and rocks contaminated by radiation, and there were no plants. The intensity of the radiation was so strong that even the scanning equipment in Gloria's hand began to be disturbed.

"This should be the place. If the scanner is correct, I think this should be what you are looking for?"

"To be honest, if this is true, then this is the first time I've seen something like this move. In the past, it was always reagents, liquid pools, minerals, and the like."

"So this is also the first time you've seen this?"

"Ah."

"Could it be a mistake? After all, your perception ability is not working well right now."

"It's possible, but let's try it first. How can we know if we don't try?"

The two of them quickly reached the predetermined location, which was the center of the abnormal radiation area. In front of them was a lake of very viscous liquid. Because the lake was dark green and emitted light, Han Zu immediately thought that this lake filled with viscous liquid should be what he was looking for.

However, according to the scanning equipment, the thing with the highest energy concentration is not the sticky, glowing dark green liquid in the lake, but something else.

Some glowing slimes of different sizes are jumping on the liquid surface.

These slimes, which seemed harmless but numbered in the hundreds, emitted abnormally strong energy signals and radiation. The energy of these guys was even higher than the four abnormal energy areas that Han Zu had sensed before.

"Uh, what's happening to me? Is this normal?"

"That's normal. It means that these liquids also contain a lot of energy. It should also be a gift from the realm of death."

Gloria followed Han Zu into the liquid lake. After the liquid surface reached her waist, a large vortex was formed around her body. Gloria could clearly feel that her body was automatically absorbing the dark green liquid around her. However, after asking Han Zu and getting an accurate answer, Gloria, who was a little flustered, stopped worrying and urged the energy in her body to absorb the liquid faster.

"Why is there no vortex around you? You should be able to absorb this liquid that carries energy, right?"

"Sure, but I need to absorb it manually. From this point of view, the concentration of the liquid around here is probably similar to that in my body, so it is not automatically absorbed. It seems that I really need to study these jumping slimes."

"So what are you going to do? Absorb these slimes directly? Or..."

"Suck it."

"..Oh, it's jelly."

Although Gloria witnessed with her own eyes that Han Zu sucked the slimes in front of him into his mouth as if they were jelly, she was no longer surprised because she had seen it so many times.

"How do you feel? How do these "jellies" taste?"

"Uh, totally tasteless."

"So do you feel the energy increase?"

"Yes, but it's not obvious. Maybe it's because I didn't absorb enough?"

"You're not going to eat all the slimes, are you?!"

"Let's try it. We haven't had a proper meal for a long time anyway. Do you want to try one too?"

"I don't think eating slime is a proper meal. I'd rather forget it. I don't really want to put anything that's still moving in my mouth, even if it's just slime."

"alright."

While watching Han Zu moving around in the lake and absorbing the slimes one by one, Gloria absorbed the dark green liquid in the lake. As time passed, Gloria began to yawn. Although she was not tired, the sleepy feeling kept invading her spirit. Now Gloria really wanted to lie down and take a nap.

Although she could breathe freely in this liquid, Gloria didn't want to float on the lake like a log, so she walked towards the shore, intending to rest for a while. But for some reason, her steps became heavier and heavier.

"Pfft."

Just near the shore, within reach, Gloria suddenly fell into the lake, lost all her strength, and floated on the surface of the lake, letting the whirlpool formed by the lake carry her across the surface. When Gloria's sleepiness reached its peak and before she closed her eyes, she saw that Han Zu seemed to have absorbed all the slimes.

"Tom!"

Gloria closed her eyes, and at the same time, she heard the sound of something heavy falling into the water. However, Gloria was so sleepy that she didn't think about where the sound came from.

Half an hour later, above the underground world, somewhere in the Antarctic Mountains.

"Om~~"

A large transport plane flew over the mountains, and through the clouds one could see something being dropped from the plane.

"Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang."

A few minutes later, about a dozen specially made airdrop capsules landed at the foot of a mountain. However, the airdrop capsules were not opened. Along with the sound of mechanical operation, the bottom of the airdrop capsules suddenly rose, and some special devices appeared at the bottom of the airdrop capsules, which looked like some laser drills.

"Buzz~~~"

As the laser drill was activated, more than a dozen airdrop pods descended rapidly, drilling through the rocks and continuously going deeper underground. After a while, these airdrop pods arrived outside the dome above the underground world. The laser drills of the airdrop pods did not slow down, and directly drilled through the rocks of the dome, and quickly fell down above the huge underground world.

“Hoo-boom~~”

However, when it was less than 500 meters away from the ground of the underground world, some propulsion systems appeared on the top of the airdrop capsule. The propulsion systems quickly adjusted the angle, slowing down the falling speed of the airdrop capsule, and landed steadily on the ground. A few seconds later, the doors of the airdrop capsule were all opened, and more than a dozen armed units wearing modular power armor walked out.

"You're finally here! Did you bring the signal enhancement equipment?"

The two power armor soldiers whose equipment Han Zu had tampered with appeared around these airdrop pods. It seemed that what Han Zu said was right. They had successfully called for support using the emergency signal.

"We brought all the necessary equipment, how is your team?"

"Because the shielding here is very serious, we can't connect to their communication channel for the time being, but I still remember their last location."

"That's fine. Let's follow the old rules. First, check if your equipment needs repair or recharging. Then we'll set off."

"We've finally come to this. The environment and creatures in this underground world are not something you can understand from the surface. We haven't used our power armor much, and now the energy is almost exhausted. If you hadn't arrived in time, you would have seen us moving around without the power armor."

"I heard you encountered a battle? With what force? Is there anyone else here?"

"What kind of force is that? They are a group of transparent creatures. We are not sure what they look like. If our captain had not stepped on many of their eggs in a hurry to reincarnate, we wouldn't have ended up running in the underground river until our respirators were scrapped."

"Indeed, that guy is not a good person, but who can blame him for having some connection with the people above? Oh, right, is there an underground river in this underground world?"

"Yes, once our power armor is finished charging, I will send you the map of the area we explored."

"The signal amplifier has been built!"

"Okay, by the way, how far are they from here? Can they receive our signal?"

"If they haven't moved on, it should be ok. I'll try."