Wasteland Hideout: Upgrading from the Sewers

Northern Wilderness.

Mie Mie carried Yu Yuan as they flew through the sky.

Yu Yuan looked at the virtual map on his positioning watch.

"Burning Fortress will be there soon, less than a hundred kilometers left."

He had come this time to investigate the oil creatures.

Greenfield's warning had made Yu Yuan take things seriously.

Greenfield, this Silver-Rank divination player, couldn't find any clues about this race.

That was definitely no simple matter.

They had appeared inexplicably in the Green Forest World, and Yu Yuan had to investigate thoroughly.

[Loyalty: Sir, Victor's mind is even more dazed today. I feel like he's afraid of something?]

Hans's message came through.

Yu Yuan was about to reply when the Combat Detector suddenly flashed. A large red dot had appeared.

"Silver-tier creature!"

Another Silver-tier!

What the hell!

He gently patted Mie Mie and flew off to the right.

The Combat Detector only had a detection range of one kilometer.

When Yu Yuan reached the location of the red dot, he frowned slightly.

Because there was no living creature here at all. The only thing present was a hill covered in ice and snow.

Yu Yuan checked the red dot indicator on the Combat Detector.

No mistake. It was this area.

But why wasn't there anything?

Yu Yuan's gaze shifted to the hill below.

As he looked, his eyes gradually widened, and a look of disbelief appeared on his face.

That was no hill down there.

It was actually a giant crouching on the ground, dozing off, just covered in a thick layer of snow.

At a glance, it looked just like a hill.

But...

"How big is this thing exactly?"

Just its height while crouching on the ground looked to be no less than thirty or forty meters.

So if it stood up, it would be at least seventy or eighty meters tall, wouldn't it?

A seventy-to-eighty-meter-tall Silver-tier creature. Just its size alone was twice that of the Ice Crystal Spider Fiend.

Was this really a Silver-tier creature?

Yu Yuan felt a bit numb.

"What the hell is in this Green Forest World! Or what the hell is this Endless Cold Wave! Why is it that the lower the temperature gets, all kinds of bizarre creatures start showing up!"

Yu Yuan was genuinely dumbfounded.

He had no intention of disturbing the creature below.

Since he already understood the situation with this Silver-tier creature and it was fast asleep, he naturally needed to leave quickly.

After marking this coordinate on the virtual map as [Silver-tier creature discovered], Mie Mie carried Yu Yuan and continued flying toward the Burning Fortress.

And just as Yu Yuan's figure disappeared into the polar night.

The 'hill' below trembled slightly. An eyelid like a rocky cliff face opened, revealing a pair of weathered and indifferent eyes.

It took a deep look in the direction where Yu Yuan had vanished, then closed its eyes again and fell back into slumber.

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[Loyalty: Sir, I'll use the flashlight to guide you! Two long flashes, one short flash, repeatedly.]

Yu Yuan quickly spotted the back area of the relatively large refinery with numerous defensive facilities below.

A beam of flashlight light appeared, flashing at a specific frequency.

Hans was holding the flashlight toward the sky, sending the signal.

Yu Yuan equipped himself with Mie Mie in midair, then used [Shadow Stride] to appear behind Hans.

Hans hadn't noticed a thing.

"Huh? Did my guidance for Sir go wrong?"

Hans was still puzzling over it when a hand landed on his shoulder.

The sudden movement startled Hans so much that his body trembled and he threw the flashlight into the air.

After fumbling to catch the flashlight, he turned around with a look of extreme displeasure.

"Who is it! Don't you know scaring people can kill them?"

Then he met Yu Yuan's eyes.

His whole body shuddered.

"Sir... Sir, when did you get behind me!"

Seeing Yu Yuan's half-smiling expression, his dead memories came back to haunt him.

It triggered some physiological reactions.

Yu Yuan gently patted Hans on the shoulder.

"Judging by how you look now, you're doing pretty well! This extreme cold hasn't affected you too much..."

Hans let out a low chuckle.

"Sir, we might not have much else here, but we have plenty of fuel oil. This bit of extreme cold is nothing compared to our fuel consumption."

Yu Yuan raised an eyebrow slightly. It seemed he had underestimated the Burning Fortress's fuel reserves before.

"How is Victor now?"

Hans shook his head lightly.

"His mind is unstable right now. Ever since he saw that picture, his emotions have been very volatile. He's suspicious and paranoid."

"Sometimes he even starts screaming in his sleep. More and more Burning Knights are starting to doubt his mental state. I've been covering for him these past few days."

"It's gotten that serious?"

Yu Yuan was now certain that Victor must know something about those so-called oil creatures.

What was he waiting for?

"Let's go! Take me to see Victor."

"Yes!"

Hans was also getting sick of the cold outside.

He immediately pulled open the iron door that had almost frozen shut and entered the internal passage of the refinery.

Hans walked ahead with the flashlight, illuminating the way, while Yu Yuan followed behind him, entering [Concealment].

The two of them headed downward together, entering the underground building area.

Because of the extreme cold, everyone in the Burning Fortress was huddled together, trying to minimize energy consumption.

No patrols, no guards on duty.

They didn't believe anyone could cross the Northern Wilderness in this low-temperature environment anyway.

Naturally, the two of them moved with surprising smoothness.

They finally arrived at a large metal door.

Hans nodded slightly backward to signal, then began to knock.

"Who is it?" A clearly suspicious voice came from inside the room.

"Leader, it's Hans. I have new intelligence to report to you."

"Hans..." There was obvious hesitation from inside the room.

But soon the voice spoke again.

"Fine, come in! But only you."

Only then did Hans push open the door.

The room was very dim, as if Victor had deliberately made it so.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Accompanied by coughing, there was also the sound of breathing like a bellows being pulled.

Yu Yuan saw a figure sitting quietly on a chair in the depths of the dim room.

Beside him were several respirators.

A strange smell also wafted through the air.

"Hans, what is it?"

Hans didn't speak. Instead, he turned on the flashlight and shone it directly at Victor.

"Hans, you—"

The sudden light startled Victor. He was about to reprimand him.

But a vine had already appeared behind him, quickly wrapping around him.

The reprimand that was about to leave his mouth turned into a whimper.

Yu Yuan revealed himself, raising an eyebrow slightly as he looked at Victor.

"Bronze-tier?"

He had never known that Victor was actually a Bronze-tier combatant. He had always thought this was just a very ordinary faction, at most an Elite-level one.

But Victor had given him a surprise!

Bronze-tier combat power was nothing to Yu Yuan now.

Even a Silver-tier combatant, he could put up a fight against.

But Victor's condition piqued Yu Yuan's interest.

Because at this moment, on Victor, who stood nearly two meters tall, a trace of black liquid was secreting from his body. This liquid didn't fall to the ground.

Instead, it was like a living thing, slowly covering and slithering over his body.

Coating Victor in a layer of oil film.

But when Hans saw these oil stains, his eyes went wide, and a look of shock appeared on his face.

"Th-this... isn't this something only those oil monsters have?"

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