Wei Huan was stunned.
Does this mean he knew they were coming? Or did he make an appointment with someone?
"Take him away from here."
This was the order Wei Huan gave to Benlang and Gouzi.
He specifically instructed, "Be gentle, and take me directly to the car to see me."
The facehugger continued forward along both sides of the wall and the ceiling, the fast-moving wind lifting the boy's overly long hair.
The boy, unaware of fear, stared in astonishment with his mouth agape until his arm was gently touched.
He looked away and saw an enormous wolf gently nudging him with its nose.
At his feet, a white, smooth facehugger was wiggling its rear end, gesturing for him to sit on it.
"Wow!"
For a young child, a dog that's half a meter long is simply a fun and large toy.
Without any words or demonstration, he pounced on the dog and climbed onto its back using both hands and feet.
The dog bounced the child around until he was in the middle, then turned and walked out of the ruins.
Behind him was the anus-cleaning guy, who was following closely behind.
Wei Huan's gaze didn't follow; he watched the scene until the boy left.
He turned around and ordered the Eye Lord to continue deeper into the cave.
The ruins on the technology side do indeed possess the conditions for human habitation. Although the alloy passageways are cold, they are clean and aesthetically pleasing. Moreover, the technology side has an energy room, which, like electricity, can provide lighting, warmth, and even living space.
If you can overcome the oppressive darkness, this is indeed a nice place.
Wei Huan used to enter the ruins on the technology side only as a "dungeon" to obtain treasure chests, and he came in with the idea of killing his way through.
I've never imagined what it would feel like for humans to live in this environment long-term.
The undead army had gone deeper into the area when they saw brighter lights, and in those lights, they saw a human male who was walking unsteadily and had a pale face.
It was a pale color, as if the plant had never seen sunlight and was not getting enough nutrition.
He walked to the corner of the corridor, yawned, unbuckled his belt, and just as he relieved himself, he turned around and greeted a wolf face to face.
The next second.
A scream of agony echoed throughout the space, like a police siren, and countless footsteps resounded from deeper within.
Wei Huan did not issue a kill order. The screaming man was simply hit hard by the elite wolf warriors and fell to the ground. When he rolled over, he saw the army of white bones filling the entire passage and immediately became as docile as a quail.
The ferocious skeleton of a wolf, the hideous skeleton of a facehugger, and the eyeball flying in the middle of the passage formed a twisted and grotesque scene, as if falling into a nightmare.
The man stopped screaming. He covered his mouth and curled up into a ball, trembling as he thought the spirits weren't attacking him because they couldn't see him.
He's almost curled up into a ball.
Until screams of agony echoed again from the depths of the ruins, followed by the sounds of battle, a hint of schadenfreude appeared in his eyes.
Wei Huan's undead army was still approaching the core area when...
It was attacked.
The Warriors are also professionals on Earth. They possess the same abilities and war machines, and their first reaction to a threat is naturally to fight.
But it didn't do any good.
They didn't even have time to mount their chariots, so they were essentially fighting a powerful undead army with their bare hands, and their defeat was inevitable.
The only difference is that those who surrendered early were unharmed, while those who surrendered late were left with bloodshed.
Finally, after realizing that the skeletons didn't eat people and that they wouldn't be attacked if they didn't resist, everyone crouched down on the ground, covering their heads.
Wei Huan's undead army entered the depths of the ruins, and within 6 minutes, they had almost swept straight in.
The so-called "Holy Son's Residence" is utterly a joke!
Wei Huan took one last look at the ruins, ordered the undead to bring everyone out, and then withdrew from view.
Because the boy has already been sent over.
...
The dog still has a normal elite panel. Wei Huan hasn't found a way to advance it yet because he hasn't found a way to advance the Earth Beast Mother Beast.
Even with just an elite panel, a level 4 dog can easily carry a child.
Five minutes later, the boy was brought over.
Wei Huan had already disappeared from the Demon Eye Lord's sight, his gaze now focused on the child being carried on the dog's back outside the windshield.
Just like the one he saw in the ruins, he appeared even thinner and weaker in the sunlight, almost transparent.
However, those eyes remained bright and clear.
Most importantly, Wei Huan found a familiar trace on this face.
He had once been in close proximity to that "God-given person," and remembered that his eyes were so bright, and his eyelashes were incredibly long, which gave him a somewhat feminine and refined appearance. His lips were full and soft, naturally smiling lips, and his smile was very sweet.
For a time, global aesthetics shifted slightly because of this "divine gift," and girls once again became fascinated by his androgynous appearance.
However, the brutality and danger of challenging the world are enough to correct everyone's aesthetic sense. Beneath the exquisite appearance, what truly attracts people is sufficient strength.
Of course, Dou Lin is a powerful person.
Wei Huan remembered his white gloves, and the playing cards he held in his hand, like a magician, mysterious and elegant.
This is another example of how boys are different from those today.
This boy is enough to evoke compassion in everyone.
"Is it him?" Mu Zhong's voice suddenly rang out. He was asking about Train Captain Sun Jianxing.
Sun Jianxing nodded: "Yes, that's right, Holy Son, uh, substitute Holy Son."
Mu Zhong looked at Wei Huan: "You mean he took the initiative to appear in the passage and said something, could it be that he predicted today?"
Wei Huan was reminded by Mu Zhong.
Yes, I must not be influenced by the memories of my previous life, nor be disturbed by the appearance of the boy in front of me. In this seemingly weak body, there is actually a fourth-order astrologer.
This is a polygonal class with prophetic, support, and combat abilities.
He is not as harmless as he seems.
"I'm going down," Xu Qingqiang said.
He found their wariness of a child quite amusing.
"I'll go with you," Wei Huan said, then turned to Mu Zhong and said, "You stay in the driver's seat."
Wei Huan wasn't afraid of the child; being cautious was justified, especially since Mu Zhong's direct combat ability wasn't strong, just to be on the safe side.
Finally, Wei Huan and Xu Qingqiang got off the car together.
To make it easier to hide, they parked their car in a dense forest, a damp and dark place with thick layers of decay and jagged tree trunks that looked like giant pythons.
You might accidentally find a large spider or a large mosquito crawling out.
With a rustling sound of footsteps, Wei Huan arrived in front of the child and heard Xu Qingqiang ask him, "Hey, kid, what are you doing here?"
The child pointed to the dog he was stepping on, his gaze shifting between Wei Huan and Xu Qingqiang's faces before finally settling on Xu Qingqiang, who was speaking, and asked, "So it was you who wanted to go on a date with me?"
Xu Qingqiang's teeth ached: "Who wants to go on a date with you? My ideal type is a woman with big breasts and a big butt, preferably with thick, fleshy lips that are nice to kiss."
Wei Huan raised his eyebrows. How could such vulgar and crude words be uttered to a child?
But Xu Qingqiang clearly didn't care.
The boy opposite him clearly didn't understand either. He completely ignored Xu Qingqiang's words and looked at Wei Huan: "So, is it you I'm dating?"
Wei Huan asked, "How did I arrange this meeting?"
"Have you forgotten? Every night after you go to sleep, you call out from behind the wall, telling me to come find you."
"Then how did you come to find me in the passageway when I was behind the wall?"
"The card told me to go where there is light."
What card?
The boy lifted the hem of his shirt, reached into his pocket, pulled out something, held it in both hands, and timidly showed it to him.
It was a tattered and incomplete deck of cards.
But in the way the boy cherished it, it seemed to be his only toy.
Wei Huan thought of the white gloves and the brand-new deck of cards again.
When he spoke again, his voice was a little hoarse: "Yes, this is where the light is. Do you want to come with us?"
Xu Qingqiang glanced sideways, seemingly surprised that Wei Huan was such a sentimental person. Should he take in someone he had just met, even if they were just a child?
It must be said that Wei Huan's image in the eyes of the public was not so kind and benevolent; it was his decisiveness in killing that was more deeply ingrained in people's minds.
But the boy was unaware that he was receiving special treatment. He said, "I want to go home."
Wei Huan pressed him further: "Is that your home? There should be a father and mother, and people who love you at home."
The boy didn't seem to understand love very well. He said, "Aunt Peng is there, Uncle Wang is there, and Brother Tang is there too. Ah, Uncle Sun is going home soon, right? I want to go home too."
After the boy finished speaking, he jumped off the dog's back, his black and dirty shoes landing on the ground, almost submerging half of his instep.
He ran back, but the giant spider and the big wolfhound that had carried him all the way jumped out and blocked his path.
Only then did he seem to feel fear.
The rustling footsteps slowly approached from behind.
The boy whirled around like a cat with its fur standing on end, brandishing his claws. "You're bad people!?"
As his hostility arose, the tattered playing cards, as if held by an unseen hand, suddenly unfolded behind him like a peacock spreading its tail feathers.
"Swish, swish, swish!"
The playing cards transformed into sharp weapons, flying towards them without warning.
Wei Huan calmly dodged to the side, the gleam of his glasses flashing across his nose.
Dou Lin's attribute panel is very ordinary. Although he is already at the fourth rank, Wei Huan, with the title bonus, is enough to crush any class at the fourth rank.
The scattered playing cards flew away without a sound, leaving everything in complete silence.
When he heard the sound again and turned around, he saw a huge tree behind him, too big for one person to hug, neatly cut down and falling.
The playing cards that had flown far away spun once in the air before flying back.
Wei Huan shifted to the side again, dodging the playing card that was slicing towards his neck, and turned his gaze back to the boy.
But then they saw that the boy had been lifted up by Xu Qingqiang, who was holding the back of his head with one hand, and his face was facing the spinning playing cards.
Finally, at the last moment, the playing card stopped right next to the boy's nose.
The wind blows, then stops; strands of hair fly and then fall back down.
The boy opened his mouth and gasped for breath, trembling like a leaf.
Wei Huan didn't feel much sympathy for this scene, because apart from a lack of love for the child, no one was injured in the process.
For challengers who are constantly fighting for their lives, "compassion" is extremely limited.
So Wei Huan calmly bent down and picked up the two playing cards that had fallen to the ground. One was a big joker, and the other was a small 3.
He held up two cards and said, "The choice is yours, the stars are watching. Will you become king or live a miserable life? The choice is yours."
The boy stared at the two cards in Wei Huan's hand, and his trembling body suddenly calmed down.
He strained to lift his shoulders, raised his finger, pointed to one of the cards, and said, "I choose this one."
...
The warriors hidden within the ruins were kept in place, their loyal and tireless spirits forming an impregnable prison, trapping everyone firmly in place.
These people were very obedient, standing motionless against the wall without any resistance.
Those who disobeyed are already lying in pools of blood. They were the strongmen in the base, once worshipped by everyone, but now their fate is unknown.
Only when you actually come into contact with the warriors will you realize that these human traitors are not powerful at all.
They are a bunch of rats escaping reality and hiding in the dark.
At least at the grassroots level.
Their worship of the "God of War" was merely lip service; they were lucky enough to reach the third-level world, but that's where they stopped.
There was no way to retreat, and moving forward was too dangerous. Returning to Earth would mean being captured. Their repeated escapes had long since worn down their courage.
The dead trapped them, and they waited quietly, at least most of them did.
Only one middle-aged woman, anxiously searching for something, finally couldn't help but stand up slightly and look at the nearest man: "Have you seen the Holy Son?"
Hearing the noise, the undead all turned to look, their eyes filled with a chillingly green flame.
The woman's body stiffened, and she endured it for a long while, seemingly vaguely...
Realizing that the skeletons weren't so cruel after all, he spoke again, shouting, "Has anyone seen the Holy Son?"
"Crack! Crack! Crack!" The wolf suddenly howled, and the entire ruins echoed with a dense cacophony of sounds. Facehuggers rustled and moved about, as if searching for someone who dared to shout or make a sound.
"Has anyone seen the Holy Son?" the woman continued to call out.
The undead stirred even more violently, as if they had been provoked, and began to surge forth.
"Someone's there..."
"Shut up! If you want to die, don't drag others down with you, you crazy woman!"
"But..."
"I said shut up!!"
The woman was still unwilling to give up, and she shut her mouth in grievance. She curled up in the corner again and squatted there without moving.
After a while, she lifted her skirt, in a posture like cradling a baby, rocking and singing, "Sleep, sleep, my dear baby, the stars are twinkling, Mommy loves you..."
The lullaby echoed through the ruins, carrying far and wide.
The undead skeletons moved slowly with the sound waves, their green flames burning quietly in their eyes.
A very long time passed, I don't know how much time had passed, it felt like a century, when the sound of footsteps came from the end of the corridor.
The man who was the first to run out to relieve himself looked up and, among the spirits of Moses parting the sea, the first thing he saw was a terrifying figure dressed in a black robe.
The other party "floated over," stepping onto the hideous and terrifying facehugger's carapace. As it passed by, it merely glanced at him indifferently, just like all the important figures he had ever met, looking down on him with an air of superiority that inspired both envy and fear.
Immediately afterwards, from behind the man, as if squeezing out from the middle of the dead, a tiny bean sprout emerged.
Because he was too short, he was overwhelmed by the tall, strong spirits of the dead.
He didn't see the boy until he was almost past him. "Saint, Holy Son!?"
Dou Lin looked back at the man, but the facehugger under his feet carried him forward, so he twisted his neck as hard as he could, to a degree that a normal person could not achieve.
Before the man could say anything more, another person came over.
Unlike the previous two, this person rode on the back of a wolf skeleton, glancing at him with the corner of his eye, looking majestic like a true boss.
In addition, he had a cigarette in his mouth.
Cigarettes are expensive in the Challenge World; it takes five points to buy a pack.
Five points are enough for an average person to live on for five days.
The man's Adam's apple bobbed as he breathed deeply, savoring the lingering fragrance in the air.
Until the fragrance faded, these people disappeared completely at the end of the passage.
He crouched down, hugged himself tightly again, and a sense of confusion gradually appeared in his eyes, unsure of the future.
By this time, Wei Huan had already passed through most of the crowd guarded by the undead, and everyone was looking at him with fearful eyes.
Wei Huan found it hard to describe that look in his eyes. It was like a homeless person seeing a glamorous, happy, and elegant upper class, and the contrast it brought to his current situation was numbness, despair, and a kind of "ah, this is my fate, this is how my life will be" attitude of giving up.
A person with real dreams wouldn't be like this.
Suddenly, Dou Lin jumped off the facehugger's back, stomped through the undead blocking his way, and arrived in front of a disheveled woman, calling out, "Aunt Peng? Aunt Peng?"
The woman loosely crossed her arms, as if she were holding a baby. She paused in her singing and looked up at the boy.
But this time, she didn't recognize that this was the "holy child" she had been searching for. She just stared blankly at Dou Lin, then looked down at the non-existent baby in her arms and sang, "Sleep, sleep, my dear baby, the stars are twinkling, Mommy loves you..."
Dou Lin stood up, his eyes filled with sadness, but he also seemed used to it. He clapped his hands and said in an adult's tone, "That crazy woman has gone mad again."
"How did it go mad?" Xu Qingqiang asked curiously, peeking out from the wolf skeleton.
Dou Lin said, "Aunt Peng entered the Challenge World right after giving birth. After completing the challenge and returning, her baby starved to death, and then she went crazy."
Xu Qingqiang frowned, his tone suddenly becoming somewhat subdued: "You mean she's the one you're looking for?"
"Yes, Aunt Peng is a very nice person. When she's not crazy, she's very good to me. She buys me clothes and cooks me hot meals."
"But you didn't say she was crazy. We don't take crazy people on our bus."
"She's not crazy when she's feeling better!" Dou Lin shouted angrily. "If you don't take her with you, I won't leave. I'll choose option three."
Wei Huan snapped his fingers, and this time he specifically ordered, "Take her back to the car."
The spirit heard Wei Huan's command and pulled Aunt Peng up. The woman was only focused on protecting the unseen child in her arms and obediently let herself be pushed along.
"Holy Son, I am Uncle Li. I usually take care of you. Please take me with you!" The man beside him noticed something was wrong and cried out in a panic.
Dou Lin said with distress, "I also want to take you with me, but there are no empty seats in my brothers' cars. And every time you get drunk, you hit me and won't let me tell anyone. You said if I dare to tell anyone, you'll strangle me."
The man was speechless, never expecting retribution to come so suddenly.
Dou Lin was a very smart child. He knew he had found a powerful backer, so he stood up straight.
He said this to every man and woman who made eye contact with him.
"Sister Yueyue, I can't take you with me either. You took the points the clan leader allocated to me and bought cosmetics and clothes. You even stole the clothes Aunt Peng bought for me..."
"Third Brother, I dislike you the most. You're just like Uncle Li, always bullying me. But I'm not petty. Brother Wei Huan promised me he'd send you back to Blue Star with some kind of seaweed. Go back and eat seaweed."
"Uncle Liu, I've seen you swap your food with mine many times. Some of it tastes awful, sour, and makes my stomach hurt at night. People say you're giving me spoiled food. I don't like you either."
Dou Lin named six people in one breath, each an adult, and each of them was bullying a child.
Xu Qingqiang's killing intent surged as he listened. He widened his vertical pupils, revealing his jagged teeth, as if he wanted to devour all of them.
With a thought from Wei Huan, all the undead came to life.
They roughly dragged them out, sometimes with pincers, sometimes with bites, sometimes with yanks. Those who resisted were beaten first; once two were subdued, the others followed suit.
No one dared to ask the "Holy Son" to save them anymore, and they didn't even dare to look the "Holy Son" in the eye, for fear that he would reveal his crimes again.
Every single person here, openly or secretly, has bullied the "Holy Son."
On the surface, they claimed to be sent by the leader of the War Clan to take care of the Holy Son, but in reality, they were taking care of someone with no power.
They only want to exploit a child with no power, no background, and no one to help him so they can live more comfortably, without considering the immense benefits they would gain if the child were to gain power.
If they had the brains to do that and were willing to work hard, they wouldn't be stuck here rotting.
The crowd was led away by the spirits, while the remaining spirits stayed behind to continue protecting Wei Huan and the others.
Dou Lin came to collect his personal belongings.
Wei Huan had other work to do.
The coordinates of the platinum treasure map are here, and he wants to explore it before opening it.
Upon arrival, they discovered that the so-called dwelling was not the kind of residence that humans on Earth understood.
Ultimately, they still had to live in their cars; this ruin was just a parking lot where they hid their vehicles.
Of course, there would be rooms for living in the ruins, but they were more like duty rooms than living quarters.
Dou Lin arrived at a graffiti-covered car and skillfully jumped onto it.
Xu Qingqiang shouted, "Is this your car?" He then stepped into the car and said, "So small? It's only level two, right? How did this beat-up little car get transported to a level three world?"
Wei Huan didn't get in the car, but he heard someone inside say, "This isn't my car, it's Aunt Peng's car. I don't own a car."
"What? No car? How is it possible for someone not to have a car? Did you also obtain citizenship through family reunification?"
What is citizenship by association?
"...So why don't you have a car?"
"Because I'm a minor."
One answer left Xu Qingqiang speechless for a long time, and Wei Huan also raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Yes.
Dou Lin probably doesn't own a car.
The world's kindness challenges these children who cannot return to survive, but the even more dangerous vehicle tests will not send them in.
I'll probably be around 20 years old before I'm transported to the assessment field like everyone else.
Dou Lin, who doesn't own a car, has to live in other people's cars. As a "burden" who occupies a parking space, it's normal for him to suffer disdain.
Wei Huan withdrew his attention and spread the spirits outwards; he was about to explore the secrets of this place.
Is that whisper that always echoes in my ears at night just a child's imagination, or the voice of some demon?