Because of the precedent of black grass, the group was always vigilant on the road, especially the seemingly harmless plants on both sides of the road, but even then they were attacked twice by some dangers, one by a group of monsters like hair rats, and the other by a group of mutated bees.

Both attacks were very sudden, because no one expected that there would be living creatures in a dense pile of black grass, so when the attack appeared, they were a little scrambling.

However, everyone soon discovered that these mutated animals and insects were similar to ordinary animals in other aspects, except that their bodies became stronger and their movements became more agile, and they were even much worse in terms of intelligence, but they only knew crazy attacks and did not know how to dodge.

After recovering their strength, these monsters were no longer threatening, and soon became corpses under the attack of everyone.

As the group stopped to take care of their wounds, Leo examined the corpses of the mutated animals and insects, and found that they showed no signs of being eroded by the black oily human pus, and that the mutations of the animals and insects were more like the results of the transformation he had seen from the Wizard of the Wilderness notes, except that this transformation did not seem to use sorcery, but another unknown power, one that might also come from the abyss.

Because when Leo came into contact with the corpses of these animals and insects, both the Chaos Stomach Pouch and the Abyssal Serpent's Eyeballs reacted, and it was obvious that these animals and insects contained abyssal power.

"This is a new abyssal force. "Just as the world of Velen has all kinds of energy, Leo doesn't just think that the abyss has only one kind of energy.

However, the power of the abyss that appeared in Death Valley now seemed to Leo to be much worse than the pus of the people in the royal city in terms of erosiveness and power.

Because a person infected by human pus will inevitably be infected by human pus after attacking, and even without being injured, even if he is in an environment full of abyssal power for a long time, he will also be infected. But now, even if these animals and insects mutated by the power of the abyss have caused harm to others, these injuries have not allowed the power of the abyss to invade the injured person's body, nor have they added corrosive damage, which is obviously different from the damage caused by human pus.

"It's here!" After two attacks, the group walked past a ruin or two that looked like outposts, and finally came to the edge of a larger valley.

"That's Death Valley Town!" Willis said without emotion, gesturing to the town in the middle of the valley.

Following Willis's finger, everyone saw a very dilapidated old town, the buildings of this town were still wooden spires from the Old English period, most of which were somewhat dilapidated due to disrepair. There were no people in the town, and I couldn't see anyone living like they were, and some of the tools of life were thrown on the ground at random, and it felt like everyone in the town had moved away, and they were in a hurry.

There is a church in the middle of the town, which is the only building in the town made of stones, which makes it stand out from the wooden houses of the town, and it is also very protruding. The shape of the church is a church design that imitates the king of the hill, simple and heavy, but the statue erected at the top of the church is not the idol of the king of the hill, but a statue that is unfamiliar to others, but Leo feels very familiar, the statue of the abyss serpent.

To be honest, like the Abyss Serpent, it has two rows of large teeth, a pair of red eyes and a pair of long ears, and it is hard to forget as long as you look at it.

"What is that?, an evil god?" asked Mira, who had good eyesight, as she saw the statue of the Abyssal Serpent at the top of the church.

"I don't know. Willis shook his head a little dazedly and said, "Before I left, there wasn't that church yet, and this should have been built after I left." ”

"Don't you think it's strange?" At this time, a transcendent said in a deep voice: "It stands to reason that those people from the Special Bureau should enter the dense fog with us and come to Death Valley, even if they come in behind us, we won't be able to walk fast along the way, if they were to catch up, they should have caught up a long time ago, why haven't they seen a single figure now?"

Sue looked at Leo and said, "Something must have happened to them." ”

"There's something wrong with that Barkley. Leo suddenly added.

Willis also heard Leo's words and asked with interest, "What's wrong with Barkley?"

However, Leo didn't explain, because this was just a guess on his part, guessing that Barkley had been infected by the power of the Abyss, becoming a monster like the living dead, and even becoming a minion of the Abyss.

The moment he saw the town, he immediately thought of the royal city, and the church of the Abyssal Serpent in the middle of the town undoubtedly made Leo a little more sure of his guess.

"What are we going to do next?" The strange atmosphere around made a transcendent very reluctant to stay here, wanting to complete the task and leave here as soon as possible, so he asked Susu urgingly.

"It's very simple, find Count Drake's graveyard and get the Poseidon artifact. Su replied casually, then took out something like a compass from his pocket and fiddled with it in his hand.

I saw that this compass was very peculiar, it was made of the bones of some kind of creature, and the surface was engraved with runes containing magical powers, and there was a stone pointer on the compass, and the pointer seemed to be stained with a drop of blood, but this drop of blood had dried up for a long time and penetrated deep into the cracks in the stone.

"This is the Gakka tribe's compass, they are willing to take this thing out for you to use, how much did you pay?" Mira recognized the origin of this compass at a glance and said in great surprise.

"Three wagons of grain. Su fiddled with the compass in his hand and said again.

In normal times, it is nothing to put in three wagons of leather Niang, at best, it is just a month's sales of an ordinary grain merchant, but in the wasteland of the Moisan continent during this time, the value of these three wagons of grain is almost equivalent to gold, because during this period of time, there was an unprecedented dry season in the wasteland, the grain was greatly reduced, and the famine was spreading, and this matter was even repeatedly reported by newspapers of all sizes in the Kingdom of England.

"You're robbing with fire. Mira looked at Sue unhappily, although she had left the wasteland tribe, she was from the tribe after all, so she naturally didn't want to see the tribe in the wasteland being bullied like this.

"No, I didn't force them. Su said flatly: "It was they who offered to exchange." ”

Mira didn't say anything more.

As Sue fiddled with the compass, it began to bloom with bursts of light, and the needle in the center of the compass also suspended under the shroud of light, rotating rapidly, and the dark red blood at the tip of the needle also became bright at the same time.

As the compass came into play, Leo's gaze fell on the compass, because he felt a hint of life on the compass, or more accurately, on the pointer, which belonged to the higher creatures of the Omega level.

Seeing Leo's gaze and the confusion in his eyes, Mira explained, "This compass is a strange artifact made by the shamans of the Gakka tribe, and it is said that it is made of the bones of the blood of the god of the wilderness, and the blood on it is the blood of the god of the wilderness. ”

"God of the Wilderness?" Leo couldn't help but look at Mira curiously when he heard the unfamiliar name, waiting for her to explain further.

Mira explains: "The god of the wilderness is only a small tribal god, and it is said that the real body is a leopard, so he can also give the believer the ability to track down his prey. However, since the disappearance of the Lord of Nature, the god of the wilderness has also disappeared, and the Gakka tribe is the last tribe to believe in the god of the wilderness, but now it seems that the Gakka tribe should have given up the belief in the god of the wilderness, otherwise it would be impossible to take out the tribal artifact as a trade item. ”

Just as he was speaking, the rapidly rotating pointer on the compass suddenly stopped, and the bloody end of the pointer pointed to the church of the abyssal serpent, and then I saw a stream of black gas suddenly gushing out of the compass, tearing the light of the compass, and at the same time, the compass and the pointer also shattered at the same time and scattered in Su's hands.

"This ......" Looking at the fragments in her hand, Su was also stunned, she had used this compass before, and things were going well, and even she found Willis because of this compass, but now the compass was broken in her hand like this, so she didn't react for a while.

"What do you want the compass to find when you were holding it just now?" asked Leo in a deep voice.

"What else can you find Count Drake?" A very useful strange object was destroyed in her hands, which made Sue a little annoyed, so she replied, and her tone became a little rushed.

"You should have found it. Leo spoke, pointing to the church, and said, "I'm afraid this Count Drake is a big problem." ”

Sue quickly realized what Leo meant, and confirmed, "Do you mean to say that Count Drake is not dead, but infected by the abyss?"

"No, Count Drake must be dead, and the Inge royal family's investigation can't go wrong. Leo shook his head and said, "But death doesn't mean it's over, sometimes death is just the beginning of another life," he said, thinking of the living dead, and added, "Let's call that state life!"

"In that case, let's go!" Su said in a deep voice.

But Mira suddenly said, "I won't go with you." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Sue frowned and glared at Mira with great dissatisfaction.

Mira smiled and said, "Don't forget, my purpose and yours were different from the beginning, I didn't come for some Seagod artifact, have you forgotten?"

"Then how do we leave after we find the Seagod artifact?" Su didn't have the slightest idea of holding Mira, but just asked questions related to herself.

"Wait for me in the ruins before that. Willis said in a deep voice.

"But what if something happens to you?" asked the transcendent.

Willis explained: "Then you just have to wait here for the next full moon night, when a passage will automatically appear. ”

After getting the answer he wanted, Sue didn't stop Mira and the two from leaving, and after watching the two of them walk from another road towards a hill not far away, he turned around and walked towards the town in front of him.

In her opinion, although Mira is strong enough and may even have some kind of intimate connection with the moon god and can use the power of some gods, it is obvious in this place in Death Valley how much help this god of the Veren world can provide to Mira, so if something really happens, Mira will become a drag, and it is better to be separated.

She was now focused on Leo's demeanor, and while she didn't know exactly how much Leo knew about what was happening in Death Valley right now, her instincts told her that the hope of finding the Poseidon Scepter might lie with Leo.

Leo didn't pay any interest in the matter between Sue and Mira, he had been focusing on the town since the compass was shattered just now, because the black gas that caused the compass to shatter just now did not disappear, but quickly poured back into the town.

After this black gas spread in the town, Leo sensed that something was waking up in the town through the eyes of the abyss serpent, and this thing contained a very large abyssal power, which made him involuntarily think of the mutated abyss monsters he saw in the royal city.

The group soon came to the outside of the town, and everyone stopped at Sue's signal.

Then Su gave a look at a transcendent, and the transcendent crouched down, put his hand on the ground under his feet, and then his hand vibrated at an extraordinary speed, and the shock wave generated by the vibration was also transmitted to the ground, and it was transmitted along the ground to the surroundings.

Leo was a little surprised to see the ability used by this transcendent, because the ability used by this person was somewhat similar to the oscillation detector he used back then, this kind of detector is to judge the situation of surrounding objects by generating shock waves and collecting feedback data, and the detection range can cover an area within ten miles at most, which can also enable ordinary people to obtain abilities similar to spiritual networks.

Soon the information from the shockwave made the transcendent make a judgment, he stood up, and said, "No danger has been found. ”

"In that case, let's ......" Sue seemed to trust the transcendent's judgment and was about to move on.

But Leo reached out to interrupt her words, and then took out a grenade made of special ammunition from what appeared to be from his pocket, but in fact from the storage space, pulled the safety off, and threw it into the town.

As the grenade landed, a loud sound broke the surrounding silence, and the power of the grenade explosion instantly blasted the ground into a huge crater, and under the impact of the blasting force, it was not only the dust on the ground that flew up, but also a large amount of flesh and blood, accompanied by a painful howl, coming out of the hole.