Chapter 1669: Mountain of Truth
The tactical assault vehicle was traveling at high speed through the desert with several barrels of fuel on the roof, making it a viable target.
After two hours of driving at top speed, Su Xiao finally left the desert and entered a plain covered with withered grass. All this time, he had seen over and over again just how harsh the Black Abyss was. Only God could tell what was waiting for them at every turn. Sudden ice or snowfall, followed by heavy rain and so on, was the norm, but disturbed gravity or cosmic turbulence was no longer something common. If a person isn't careful enough and gets caught in a similar zone, they will end up being torn to pieces with no chance of escape.
Fortunately, they were lucky all along. Perhaps Su Xiao had already spent all of his bad luck meeting the black dragon in the beginning, so they didn't encounter too bad conditions on their way. When they finished with a group of scavengers, it turned out that they didn't have a penny in their pocket, but they had a lot of fuel. Su Xiao even began to suspect that these scavengers had too bad a reputation in the Black Abyss, which was why no one wanted to trade with them, and hence why they didn't have any currency with them.
But scavengers weren't easy targets. An hour and a half ago, when Su Xiao was almost out of the desert, hundreds of tactical assault vehicles fell on their tail. This was the retribution squad of these vultures, and this squad had a leader. He was a burly man with disheveled yellow hair and a metal mask on his face. Even from a long distance away, Su Xiao could vaguely sense the threat coming from him.
Perhaps because fuel wasn't free, they eventually stopped chasing after them when they left the desert's borders, but even so, they stood at the desert's borders until Su Xiao's car was out of sight.
That scavenger convoy brought a lot of useful things. Su Xiao was able to find a map in the cab of one of the trucks. Although most of this map was eaten by some insects, the fragment that remained intact marked the specific location of the mountains of Truth.
Su Xiao was currently in a territory called the Withered Plains. Very few wild beasts or intelligent races lived here. There was practically no water on these damned plains and it rained once every few years, so no one really wanted to live in such a place.
— What do you want to do on the Mountains of Truth? - apparently, unable to stand the loneliness, Lilith decided to take the initiative in her own hands.
— Find something, but compared to what I want to find there, your goal is more interesting.
— I'm only going there because you're going to go there, I was ordered to follow you, " Lilith replied, putting her arm around her shoulders and lightly tapping her braid with her index finger.
— Really? When I said I was going to the Mountains of Truth, your eyes clearly wanted to say, " What a coincidence, I need to go there too».
— No ... " said Lilith, and suddenly realized that she had let it slip.
— Really? So you want to find something there, too?
— Lilith gritted her teeth. She felt a huge gap between herself and Su Xiao in terms of catching on to small details. She was caught making one mistake, and then caught again making a mistake she didn't even realize she was making. — So what, so you get it, and then what?" I just want to help someone deal with an unpleasant case. Everything will be resolved very quickly.
— Really? I wish you success, " Su Xiao replied, deciding to stop pestering her so that she wouldn't feel too bad. Right now, he urgently needed to become famous somehow. As for whether he became famous as a good person or a bad person, it didn't matter, as long as his name spread around the Black Abyss, for only then would he be able to figure out whether Bubtni and Sha were able to enter this place or not.
This time, the mission was very difficult. Su Xiao felt that it would be very difficult or even impossible to complete it alone. He will have to use the power of Lilith and Sha, and Bubtni will play the role of an indispensable scout..
After thinking about this, Su Xiao glanced at the map.
After about 25 hours of travel, they will reach the vicinity of the Mountains of Truth.
Along the way, with the exception of Lilith's secrets, Su Xiao learned a rough outline of her situation. As for Bubtney, he couldn't contact him yet, and he didn't know where he was. When contacting him via an audio channel, he heard only music, and through a text chat, he received only distorted characters from him. But that was good news. The fact that Bubtney was responding to his text messages meant that he had entered the outer layer of the Black Abyss.
Nothing was clear about Sha yet, but since Su Xiao had tricked her earlier, this woman must have suffered a lot.
Twenty-three hours later, Su Xiao and Lilith, who took turns driving the car, arrived at the Mountains of Truth.
As soon as Su Xiao jumped down from the tactical assault vehicle, a notification from Heaven appeared in front of him.
[Reminder: The hunter arrived in a high-risk area, at the Apologetic Heights (also known as the " Mountains of Truth»).
This location is extremely dangerous. The hunter may encounter higher-level creatures that they can't handle.
Apologetic heights are divided into four parts: the outer zone (current location), the periphery (dangerous territory), the atrium (very dangerous, with a clear division of territories) and the central zone (extremely dangerous, the Hunter is strongly advised not to approach it).]
Su Xiao looked up.
He saw large mountains with tents and wooden houses arranged one after another.
All of these buildings were built on high ground. As for the center of the hill, it was huge and he couldn't see anything at all.
Such a huge place inhabited by intelligent races had its own unique order. Even though they were in the Black Abyss, a place where there were no laws, without a clear management, this place would not have been able to grow to such a scale.
Without Mumbling, Su Xiao wouldn't be able to determine the situation in the central area, so he would have to find another way. Finding a local faction in the mountains and joining it was the fastest option. If he could also become famous, it would kill two birds with one stone.
— What now? The person I need to meet hasn't arrived yet.
— I will join the local faction. You can go look for the right person, if something goes wrong, contact me, " Su Xiao said and tossed the communication device to her. It could form a communication corridor with the same device, if it was located within 20 kilometers..
Lilith nodded, and Su Xiao walked towards the mountain.
As he slowly began to climb the stone stairs, he kept catching sight of all sorts of races. They all had one thing in common: they were all poor, it was evident from their clothes and figures.
There was a strange smell in the air.
The outer part of the Mountains of Truth was a slum, and the Ash Tree that needed to be found and returned was most likely located somewhere in the central part.
When Su Xiao passed through the slums, after a few minutes of walking, a relatively flat area appeared in front of him, but several men dressed in the same uniform were standing on the road.
Getting past the slums was obviously already an asterisk task, let alone advancing into the central area.
— Stop, " said a gaunt-faced man with a hip-thick shotgun slung across his back. "Show me," he said, lifting his sleeve to reveal a wolf and bear tattoo on his forearm.
Some of the guards wore rings and earrings of various sizes.
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