These fragments of the Polar Ice Python, Qi Lin planned to go to Persephone to create a light armor - Persephone had mentioned to him that in addition to providing finished weapons, their trading house also had many skilled craftsmen and players, who also took on the work of equipment OEM.

After storing these things, Qi Lin set off again to the target Li Family Castle.

With the exception of the Li Family Castle marked as "red" and the "blue" Polar Ice Python territory, the rest of the distance is a yellow area - "yellow" means that there are no permanent or semi-permanent strongholds for human players, but there are also no areas where mutated creatures above F are active.

In other words, the highest-level mutant creatures that will appear in this area are only F-level bosses.

It's just that Qi Lin still didn't take it lightly along the way, after all, the map was drawn by the player, and the activity area of the mutated creatures was by no means static, just like the polar ice python, I didn't know what was going on today, and actually stayed away from his territory and entered the area originally marked yellow.

Qi Lin had two more props in his backpack than when he set off from Thunder City, namely the Polar Ice Python's Cold Slurry Sac and the Poison Moth Emperor's Serum.

The cold pulp sac is not large, as long as it is wrapped in thick leather, it is not a big problem to carry around, and in case of emergency, it can be thrown out as a "frozen grenade" to use.

In the case of serum, the amount is lighter, and it is a valuable item, so Qi Lin will naturally choose to carry it with him.

Speaking of serum, the serum of the "Chameleon Lizard" that Bryce handed over to Qi Lin as a reward had been successfully fused by Qi Lin before departure, and his special skill also had one more: [Primary Dynamic Camouflage].

Although I don't know the principle of this skill, as long as Qi Lin's mind moves, he can refract the light around him and achieve a kind of old-time optical camouflage effect - but this skill also has its flaws, that is, once used, Qi Lin himself cannot move, and once the range of action is too large, the effect of dynamic camouflage will be flawed.

If you look at it from an outsider's point of view, you can see that the light is unnaturally distorted where the impostor is located.

Otherwise, Qi Lin only needed to activate the dynamic camouflage before passing by, and he could avoid those unnecessary misunderstandings with the griffin hunting group.

However, according to the skill instructions, as long as you upgrade to the intermediate level of dynamic camouflage, you can perfectly camouflage your tracks while moving at low speeds.

By analogy, as long as the skill level is higher, you can perform a larger movement in the camouflage process without being recognized.

But then again, camouflage skills are only visual camouflage after all, for many mutated creatures, the senses of smell, sound, temperature, vibration, etc., are far more powerful than visual senses, and dynamic camouflage cannot hide from human infrared thermal imaging detectors.

In general, this is a skill with great limitations, and it is a magic skill when used well, but in more cases, it can only be regarded as a chicken skill.

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The last journey did not run into any powerful mutant creatures, and Qi Lin easily approached the outer area of the ancient castle, but when he reached the edge, Qi Lin stopped.

As long as you cross the cake shop on the corner in front of you, it is a "red area" with the Li Family Castle as the core, and there is a large area of "red area", just outside the castle, there are hunters and players who have witnessed the traces of D-class mutant creatures, so this area will be classified as a "highly dangerous" area.

D-class bosses, all of them are extremely powerful mutant creatures, although with the strength of the current players, after concentrating a large amount of manpower, these D-class mutant creatures can also be encircled, but the price to pay is too great, so so far, whether it is the virtual trading platform on the brain or the auction in Thunder City, there has been no public appearance of D-class creatures of serum or materials.

Lijia Castle is an imitation Western-style castle built in the Republic of China, the standard late Renaissance "Baroque" mixed with "Gothic" style, covers an area of tens of thousands of square meters, in addition to the outside of the heavy high wall and the four corners of the arrow tower fort, the castle even has a huge garden and a small wood.

Qi Lin climbed an abandoned high-rise building near the castle, and from the top of the building, he could see that the castle was desolate, no longer prosperous, and the tall and gorgeous main building of the inner castle was like a sleeping beast, crawling in the center of the castle.

And inside the castle, Qi Lin found at least three E-class mutant creatures, as well as one D-class mutant creature, these powerful beings actually got along with each other peacefully in the castle, which made Qi Lin feel a little weird.

It stands to reason that a powerful mutant creature will not be surrounded by the territory of other mutant creatures of the same level, after all, "on the side of the couch, how can others be allowed to snore", therefore, on Qi Lin's hunter map, all the blue areas around are yellow low-risk areas, and there are few large blue areas connected together.

Although the space in the castle is not small, compared to the original activity space of the mutant creatures, this distance is almost equivalent to the neighbors who live next door, whether it is foraging or any other daily activities, it is easy to bump into each other, with the ferocious nature of the mutant creatures, it is absolutely impossible to live together in peace like this, unless it ......

Unless, the relationship between these mutated creatures is not hostile, but allied!

Forming an alliance, Qi Lin was also a little frightened by his own thoughts...... The alliance of mutated creatures of different races can be regarded as a big joke if it were to be said...... However, if these mutated creatures are not "on the same side", how do they live together in the castle?

I don't know why, in addition to "alliance", another word suddenly popped up from Qi Lin's mind.

"Captivity".

That's right, it's captivity, these powerful mutant creatures, as if they were deliberately "captive" in this kind of castle......

"Captive" mutant creatures?

So far, the only large social creatures Qi Lin has ever seen are the group of Assasin crypt spiders, but the problem is that they are the same species, and these mutated creatures, from insects to mammals, span a little too much.

To fully control these creatures, it is not enough to rely on great strength...... If there is anyone who can do this, it is the research institute that represents the highest level of science and technology of mankind.

But in the Vault, the research institute has enough space to build such a "laboratory", and in the game, it is even simpler, opening up a virtual space isolated from ordinary players, or completely using data simulation, there is no way to set up the laboratory in an abandoned city, in this case, there are too many unstable factors.

According to the above reasons, Qi Lin believes that this Li family castle should not be one of the strongholds of the institute.

In the game world of "Wasteland", because it is one of the game developers, the existence of the institute is more similar to an official organization, or a game administrator, who can regulate the entire game world from the perspective of God, if they need a "zoo" of captive mutant creatures, just knock a few lines of code, not to mention these E-class and D-class creatures, A-class and S-class can copy the number of a legion.

For now, the biggest possibility is that in this Li Family Castle, there is a branch line of hidden missions!

And the map and gray card that the two groups of people have artificially combined are likely to be the trigger items for this hidden mission.