A labyrinth of subspace, somewhere deep in the box garden.

In a rich atmosphere filled with the smell of barbecue, a flame burned in the middle of the makeshift camp made of dirt and corpses.

Of course, the smell of barbecue is the smell of barbecue, but what kind of meat it is, no one present wants to know.

In addition to the wood and blood vines found in the subspace labyrinth, there are also many research reports that have lost their value after being confirmed.

The ink-colored text on the research report used as fuel is gradually being swallowed up by the firelight, turning to gray ashes, but its striking title is still clearly visible.

The Process of Overcoming Death: Artificial Souls Have Entered Clinical Trials

The people of the Huaiguang rescue team are eating silently around the campfire to replenish their strength.

In the filter of subspace, the flames are like a shaking ball of blood, giving people a moist and smelly feeling, rather than a warm light.

Actually, maybe that's true.

Since entering the labyrinth of subspace, everything seems to have been distorted...... As soon as the rescue team entered, they encountered two battles in a row, and although they were a little scrambling, with the strength and aura of the two Templar executors, the team did not lose its strength, and with the help of the doctor, several injured team members were quickly healed.

Following the detection of the subspace probe, they made steady progress towards the depths of the labyrinth.

But as it deepened, the intensity of the battle became more and more intense, and even the phantom raid of the second level of the plural appeared that could only be resisted by hard power.

This is actually not difficult to solve - looking at the corpses that smell of barbecue at the feet of these rescue team members, you can know that their strength is so strong, not to mention the second-level demonic beasts, even the third-level may not be able to stop their advance......

Of course, the third level can be more difficult. It depends on whether it is the initial level of the mind light body that has emerged, or the intermediate level of awakening the life spirit energy, or the high level that the heart light body has matured and merged with the life spirit energy to concretize a specific image.

The beginner can still deal with it, but the intermediate level will run at the beginning.

But the real problem is that there are some enemies that they simply can't spot.

Even if a team member dies because of this, it can't be found.

The atmosphere in the camp was rather dreary, and Ransom wiped the two-handed heavy sword in his hand with a solemn face, while Huijian closed his eyes and was meditating, recovering the load of spiritual energy on the spirit and body.

There were more than a dozen people in the team, including three elves, five subhumans, five humans, and two dwarves. The two of them are dead, plus the captain Huijian and the vice-captain Shuguang, a total of fifteen people, which can basically be said to be Terra's international column.

In fact, this is also the largest team that Huaiguang supporters acting in their own names can gather in the South Ridge and the Western Plains.

They have worked together and experienced many hardships and obstacles...... As a result, he inexplicably lost two good hands in the maze.

Elven archer Eliza, a top shooter who can accurately shoot apple cores from a distance of 700 meters, has an amazing eyesight, and it is said that she has difficulty getting close to others because she can see mites on people's faces.

Eliza mysteriously disappeared after a skirmish, only to find her broken longbow, and she apparently struggled for a moment after the assault, but no one found out when she was attacked and when she died.

The second victim is the cat man Fife.

He was a natural stalker, and the Shadow Chameleon's bloodline made him feel like no one in any environment or place. Once a jewel thief, Fife was rescued by Huaiguang during a natural disaster, so he changed his ways, determined to repay all the treasures he had stolen in the service of Huaiguang.

But his body soaked in poison was found in another box courtyard, in order to prevent the danger from causing another attrition, the Huaiguang rescue team did not even dare to recover his body, so they had to retreat to a relatively simple box garden, began to rest, and beware of possible dangers.

There was a strong eerie aura from beginning to end, and the two people who died were the sharpest in the team, and they had experienced countless battles and were very good at cooperating, and it was not difficult to explain why they died in battle, but it was simply unreasonable to die quietly.

As Carlo, another Tiger warrior, said, even if ten of him died, it was impossible for Fife to die, he had a natural premonition of danger, and any attack, even if it was a supersonic alchemy firearm, as long as it was aimed at him, he would know in advance and even instinctively avoid it.

Unless, that attack comes from behind.

– This is the most serious accusation.

- There are ghosts in the team.

When Captain Teruken gently asks the Tigerman Samurai if he really thinks so, and who is the inner ghost, the samurai, who is rude on the surface but actually has a very good head, gets stuck—he just instinctively vents his emotions, and he has no idea that such a statement will cause the team to fall apart.

That's why the team's mood is so dull now.

[There are indeed ghosts]

Through Huaiguang's internal communication channel, Huijian is talking to Ransom Light: [Carlo is right, Elisha may have been plotted, but it is impossible for Fife to be attacked by the enemy...... A close friend will let him die without noticing]

Ransom nodded, her brows furrowed: [But this is too unbelievable, most of our team has been fighting for Huaiguang for more than ten years, and in a place like the subspace labyrinth, before the task is completed, they will turn back before they find the rescue target...... It's not normal no matter how you look at it]

[Yingguang, what do you think? 】

She turned her head and asked her junior sister, the white-haired dragon nun, Yingguang.

[Someone must have been confused by their minds, this should be caused by the spiritual energy of some mysterious and powerful subspace monster]

Sister Reflection was also here, and compared to the outfit of Ryan's collar, she was wearing silver light armor at the moment, holding a ruby staff that could be used as a spear in one hand, and a shield in the other, which was the most common clerical equipment in Terra.

She was also the core of the team, a member of the physician, and the perceptive nun was now looking around at everyone present with the corner of her eye, unobtrusively: [Fafe may let her guard down because the other party is a friend, but Eliza generally does not allow others to come within two meters of her...... This is obviously affected by the consciousness, and maybe even we are affected, but we don't know it.]

After these words came out, even the internal channel was silent for a while. The blood-colored flames heated the pot of water, causing it to make a boiling rumbling sound.

But suddenly, Ransom stood up.

"Who is it?!"

The cow girl's angry roar was like thunder, causing the entire team to suddenly rise up and start a battle formation.

But just as the ransom roared, a gunshot rang out, exploding at the edge of the box garden!

Bang!!

With this explosive sound of firearms, the alchemy bullet propelled by the high-purity essentia tore through the air, and with a terrible wind howl, it shot straight towards one of the human knights in the team!

Because it was too sudden, and the speed of the bullet was too fast, for a while, no one could stop this shot.

Strangely, however, the knight who had been targeted behaved rather strangely - he had apparently spotted the shot, his expression of astonishment was so real, but his body was moving slowly, as if he wanted to disguise himself as if he couldn't dodge.

But after an instant, his speed suddenly increased, and his whole body twitched extremely unnaturally, dodging the bullet in an extremely distorted posture.

Boom!

The alchemy bullet that was dodged exploded, and what exploded was not a lethal alchemy gunpowder shockwave, but a layer of special 'matte powder'...... This powder is similar to the dust of development, which can easily reveal some stealthy sublimators, but it does not have the role of 'highlighting' like the dust of development.

But it's enough.

The knight, who had dodged the bullet in an extremely unnatural manner, suddenly let out an extremely resentful and angry roar after being covered in matte powder—and then, its entire body wriggled and changed, turning into a mass of flesh shapeshifters in the form of a human!

(End of chapter)