Looking around, there is only a deep darkness four to five hundred meters ahead.
It was as if the entire street scene was suddenly cut in half, and the other side was swallowed up by endless darkness.
The deep darkness is like a huge black mouth that wants to devour people, waiting for the intrusion of uninvited guests. Just looking at it can cause a shiver to run down one's spine involuntarily.
"That's the core area."
Yaoguang's voice came from his ears, bringing Lin Ze back to reality from his daze.
"The scourge is staying in there."
"Don't look at the core area right in front of you. In fact, it has long been separated from this world and has become a different space of its own. Except for free entry and exit during a fixed time period once a month, it is only inaccessible at other times.
Come out...unless the disaster beast is willing to let you go."
Yaoguang was slightly humorous, but the solemn expression on his face remained unchanged.
"So be careful and don't touch that darkness. The team directly under you has regulations. If anyone, including the captain, strays into the core area, the rest of the team members are not allowed to rescue them, lest everyone falls into it. Even if
It is a captain-level existence, and it is impossible for a person to survive in the core area for a month, so once it is swallowed inside, the end is basically doomed."
Lin Ze nodded. In fact, anyone in the direct team can survive for a month without food and water. However, there are still disaster beasts in the core area. Once you enter, you will have to face the disaster beasts alone. The outcome is unpredictable.
And know.
Withdrawing his gaze from the deep darkness, Lin Ze turned to look at the group of high-level dark descendants entrenched at the junction of the darkness and the street scene. A rough visual inspection revealed that there were at least forty of them, which was the target of the direct team's trip.
A high-level dark descendant is worth 200 merit points, and Lin Ze currently has a total of more than 900 merit points.
"I am currently at Sequence 7. To be promoted to a Sequence 6 one-star member requires 2,000 meritorious deeds. In other words, I only need to kill 6 more high-level dark descendants to meet the promotion conditions."
The number of meritorious deeds required to improve the sequence is extremely large, and it usually takes a very long time to collect them all.
For example, ordinary Sequence 7 two-star team members generally only have the strength of elite-level to mid- to high-level, and cannot deal with the high-level dark descendants of the heroic level, so they can only obtain meritorious service by hunting ordinary dark descendants.
Promotion to Sequence 6 requires a full 2,000 meritorious deeds, which means killing 2,000 ordinary dark descendants, which usually takes two to three months at the fastest.
In a war as intense as today, a guardian who can survive for two or three months without dying in battle must have broken through to a level consistent with Sequence 6, and promotion is a matter of course.
The sequence system of the White Palace seems simple, but it is very suitable for today's situation.
Lin Ze's thoughts were racing, while Luo on the other end gave the order to attack freely. In an instant, all the team members flashed past, using their abilities to kill the enemy brazenly.
The high-level dark descendants entrenched at the junction immediately noticed the guardian's attack and rushed forward with roars.
A fierce battle broke out instantly.
The high-level darkin has a numerical advantage, but the individual strength of the guardians is even better. Basically everyone can hold back 1 to 2 high-level darkin, and senior vice-captains like Yaoguang are even more direct.
Fighting against 3 high-level dark descendants.
The most eye-catching among them were Luo and Lin Ze. The former controlled a giant long sword and rushed forward at high speed, directly cutting a high-level dark descendant in two with a fierce momentum. Then the long sword swept across, and the air wave surged and cut the high-level dark descendant into two pieces.
Five high-level dark descendants from all around were involved.
Lin Ze, on the other hand, directly condensed the Red Lotus Armor and kicked his feet violently. The ground immediately exploded with a rumble, and countless dense cracks exploded. He was shot out like a cannonball under the huge reaction force.
In an instant, he hit a high-level dark descendant across a distance of hundreds of meters, savagely and roughly knocking it into a bloody mist.
The next second, the golden sword light turned into a storm of wind and rain and swept out, drowning the four high-level dark descendants around them.
Luo and Lin Ze alone were able to hold back nine high-level dark descendants and kill two of them instantly.
Everyone in Luo's powerful direct team had long been accustomed to it, but Lin Ze's performance exceeded their expectations time and time again. Seeing Lin Ze independently resisting four high-level dark descendants, he still had the upper hand. Even in the fierce battle, Yao
Guang and others couldn't help but secretly marvel.
Although they were at a numerical disadvantage, the balance of victory gradually tilted towards the direct team. Especially as Luo and Lin Ze successively eliminated the opponent's high-level dark descendants and turned to help the other team members, the battle gradually became one-sided.
situation.
More than ten minutes later, the battle ended. The corpses of more than forty high-level dark descendants lay all over the ground, and dark blood accumulated in a shallow layer on the ground.
On the other hand, although most of the direct team was injured, there were no casualties.
This result did not surprise Lin Ze. After all, there were two saint-level combatants in the team, and the rest were all hero-level. Among them, there were many high-level and quasi-heroic levels, and they killed more than 40 hero-level juniors.
The steps are not difficult.
Looking around, Lin Ze turned his attention to Luo.
After the battle, Luo walked a few meters away from the core area and stared at the darkness, seemingly observing something.
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Yao Guang walking towards Luo. Lin Ze's heart moved and he quietly moved closer to the two of them. After a while, he heard the conversation between the two.
"Captain, what are you looking at?"
Luo was silent for a few seconds and said softly: "I always feel a little uneasy."
"Uneasy? Do you mean the disaster beasts in the core area?" Yaoguang said with a hint of surprise in his tone, "We just went in to explore yesterday. The disaster beasts here are still in a semi-sleep period. In addition to instinctively creating dark descendants,
There will be no other actions, so there is nothing to worry about."
"...I hope so."
After chatting for a few more words, Luo turned around and gathered everyone who was resting to prepare to leave.
Lin Ze opened the nameplate and took a look, and found that he had collected enough merits, so he directly upgraded the sequence, immediately put away the nameplate and returned to the team. After Luo re-deployed the giant sword barrier, the direct team left and prepared to return to the White Palace.
Due to the massacre on the way here, there were significantly fewer dark descendants encountered on the way back. It only took half the time it took for the direct team to step into the gray buffer zone, and Luo also removed the barrier.
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Under the restrictions of certain rules in the underworld, unless a large number of dark descendants gather and launch an attack on the White Palace under high-level dark descendants, there will never be any dark descendants entering the gray sand.
So after entering the sand, everyone relaxed a little.
Not long after, the White Palace appeared in the field of vision.
Just when he was about to arrive at the North Gate, Lin Ze suddenly caught a glimpse of a group of figures appearing in the distance on his right from the corner of his eye. He turned around and saw that more than a dozen men and women in high-end uniforms were running towards the North Gate a thousand meters away.
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"It's the team directly under Captain Yuehu of the third team." Yaoguang also noticed the person coming, a trace of surprise flashed across his face.
Luo, who was at the front of the team, immediately stopped. Seeing this, the others also stopped and turned to look at the person coming.
Lin Ze stopped and looked around. There were fourteen people in the team running towards them. The leader was a petite but graceful girl with a youthful and lively atmosphere.
Like Luo, she also wears a mask on her face, with a few red lines on the white mask to outline a cunning fox-like image.
The captains of the Guardian team all seem to have the habit of wearing masks. The captain of the first team, Luo, the captain of the second team, Ming Ke, and the captain of the third team, Yue Hu, all wear masks at all times. I don’t know if they are all wearing masks.
They have the same habits, and it is a special tradition of the White Palace that the captain wears a mask.
More than twenty meters away, Yuehu waved her hands happily and shouted:
"Lo!"
As soon as the words fell, the whole person turned into an afterimage and flew out. In an instant, he crossed a distance of more than 20 meters and came to Luo, hugged her, and giggled while holding her body.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Lin Ze couldn't help but be slightly startled.
Looking at Yaoguang and the others, as well as the members of the third team of Guardians, their faces looked unsurprised, as if they had seen similar scenes many times.
"Yuehu, you are the captain of the third team. You can't act so frivolously. You must set an example for the team members." Luo was unmoved and said without any wavering in his tone.
Yuehu released her with a smile and said: "Don't be so rigid. I stayed in the inner ring area of Satellite City No. 4 for three full days, cleaning out high-level dark descendants. I'm almost bored to death, okay?
It's easy to come back to the White Palace, and I met you by chance, and I couldn't help hugging you because of my happiness... Your smell is still as charming as ever, let me hug you again!"
As she said that, she hugged Luo again.
"I just finished cleaning up the high-level dark descendants, and their scent should still remain on my body." There was confusion in Luo's tone, "I didn't know you still like this smell."
"...You still don't understand the style."
Yuehu shook his head and turned to look at Yaoguang and others, "The date of a team's core area exploration mission was yesterday. So you are going to hunt high-level dark descendants today... Hey,
Are there any new faces?”
As he spoke, Yuehu suddenly discovered Lin Ze's presence, and in a flash, he was in front of him. He looked him up and down, and said in a loud voice: "What a strange face, why do I seem like
I have never seen you before, ah, you are wearing the uniform of an ordinary team member, so you are specially transferred?"
"And you are very handsome, just my type."
Yuehu's topic changed so quickly that Lin Ze couldn't help but be stunned and couldn't react for a while.
At this time, Yaoguang next to him coughed and quickly explained: "Captain Yuehu, Lin Ze is a newcomer who just came out of Aries Palace. Because of his good strength, he was transferred to the direct team by Captain Luo."
"Wow, so you have both good looks and strength. Do you have a girl you like..."
Before he could finish his words, Luo Yi, who came behind him at some point, held his shoulder.
"Moon Fox."
Yuehu's words suddenly stopped, and he slowly raised his hands and muttered: "Okay, okay, I just won't say anything, Luo, don't be angry."
Lin Ze looked at the scene in front of him speechlessly, and couldn't help but feel a little stunned.
I didn't expect the captain of the third team to have such an out-of-touch personality.
On the other hand, the members of the third team of Guardians looked at the situation in front of them and burst into laughter.
"Captain really doesn't have a long memory."
"That's right, I have to make a move every time before I restrain myself."
"I'm going to be reprimanded by Captain Luo again when I go back."
Although the people in the second team did not speak, they all covered their mouths and snickered.
Yaoguang patted Lin Ze on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't mind, Captain Yuehu has this kind of character, but she doesn't mean any harm. Just get used to it in the future."
Lin Ze shrugged, he didn't mind, he was just a little surprised.
Yuehu stopped making noise, and everyone no longer stayed where they were, and entered the north gate together. The injured went to a nearby medical point for treatment, while the rest returned to their residences to rest.
Before leaving, Lin Ze glanced at the direction of Luo and Yuehu and saw the two walking forward side by side. It seemed that their destination was going to the palace deep in the White Palace.
He turned his head and looked at the tall white palace in the distance, with a hint of curiosity about the king in his heart.
...
Time flies.
The next month passed uneventfully.
In addition to practicing every day, he also goes out to kill high-level dark descendants.
Lin Ze had truly experienced the intensity of the battle in White Palace. He basically had to go to the satellite city to perform tasks every day, at least once, as often as three or four times. It could be said that he was so busy that his feet never touched the ground.
The biggest reason is that the White Palace is short of manpower. The three guardian teams are responsible for clearing four satellite cities and are simply too busy.
However, under this situation, Lin Ze's merits also increased rapidly. In one month, the merits obtained exceeded 30,000.
To upgrade from Sequence 6 to Sequence 5 as a core member requires 5,000 merits, and to upgrade from Sequence 5 to Sequence 4 as an assistant team member requires 10,000 merits.
In other words, after one month, Lin Ze has been promoted to assistant team assistant, and has accumulated one-third of the 50,000 merit points required to be promoted to the third deputy team. He can be called the fastest-promoted guardian in the history of White Palace.
Thanks to this, his reputation quickly spread throughout the White House.
Nowadays, almost all the guardians know that the team has the most powerful newcomer in history, who has the strength of a captain not long after he was born in the Aries Palace.
Many guardians took this incident as a sign that the king was recovering from his injuries, so that the morale of the White Palace, which had been sluggish in recent months, had improved a lot.
Lin Ze naturally heard about this statement, but did not express an opinion on it.
The three captains whose status in the White House were second only to Wang also tacitly remained silent, neither preventing the spread of this statement nor coming forward to confirm it.
It is worth mentioning that since meeting Lin Ze at the North Gate a month ago, Yuehu seemed to have become interested in him, and would suddenly appear in front of him from time to time, chatting with him with a smile.
Of course, more often than not, he would rush into the first team's team office to find Luo Luo for a hug, causing many guardians to burst into laughter.
In the repressive and solemn White Palace, the Moon Fox can be regarded as an extremely special existence.