The stone road underfoot was completely deserted at this time, and in the depths of the dark forest, one could see damaged carriages everywhere. There were even some white bones, tattered clothes, and blackened bloodstains piled up near the frames of some carriages.

"Let's go!"

As the red moon rose in the east, the crimson light illuminated the earth, making the entire wilderness of the southern continent look even more desolate and silent. The roots of the trees on the dilapidated stone road had overturned the slabs, and Su Li and his party of five were constantly advancing towards the depths of the dark forest.

"Roar!"

In the distance, the sound of fighting could be faintly heard, and on both sides of the streets of the southern continent, the distant dilapidated villages echoed with the roars of wild beasts. The ordinary transcendent magical beasts, many members of the Black Night Church carefully spread out from the military zone as the center to kill ordinary transcendent creatures around them to familiarize themselves with the rhythm of their own battles.

Su Li's team set off relatively late, and many transcendent creatures in the area had already been killed, so their speed of advancement was extremely fast, with almost no obstacles, directly advancing into the depths of the wilderness.

The large trees on both sides had been affected by the battles, and many of them had shattered, leaving traces of battle everywhere. As the team quickly delved deeper, the primitive atmosphere around them became even stronger, and the roar of beasts became fewer and fewer.

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The speed of the team's movement was not slow, and they did not know how far they had delved. Oscar sighed and said, "This place is different from what I imagined the southern continent to be like."

Lindsey casually asked, "What do you think it should be like here?"

"It should be similar to our Karl District, with dense villages, developed transportation, and sporadic distribution of transcendent monsters, not as dense as this."

Indeed, compared to the Valerian Continent, this place looked more desolate. As night fell, the surroundings became more humid and the temperature gradually became colder. However, the southern continent had not been affected by the industrial revolution, and there was no dust in the sky, which was fresh air that Delan Becca could not enjoy.

Nicole smiled faintly at the words, walking in the middle of the team and saying slowly, "If you don't really encounter smog, feel the cold, and see the trees around you turn gray, then you need to be really careful, because that means danger, pollution, disease, and mutation."

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The five of them quickly moved forward, and soon, a faint mist enveloped the surrounding forest.

Oscar's spiritual perception was keen, and he stopped alertly. Under Su Li's spiritual vision, he discovered that a huge, emotionless, and cold eye had appeared behind Oscar at some point. The eye was at least half a meter tall, transparent, without pupils, and its gaze had no focus.

Not only that, there were no eyelashes above the eye. It slowly turned, surveying everything around it, giving people an eerie feeling.

Peeking into the transcendent power that passed by, investigating secrets.

As the eye slowly turned, Oscar said in a low voice, "It's necessary to remind you that the air around here is starting to become polluted. If the air here becomes more turbid, we must put on our gas masks in advance."

In the following journey, the mountain and forest terrain was no longer flat, and the five people stumbled as they climbed through the mountains. Everyone dared not take it lightly. In the polluted area, the surrounding plants gradually became desolate, and the trees began to become sparse.

Gauss suddenly frowned and said, "I always feel that something is not quite right around here."

Su Li's spiritual perception expanded to the maximum, and he looked around and said, "It's too quiet here. Not only are there no people, but there are no sounds of insects either."

"It shouldn't be like this. We set off relatively late, so there should have been teams passing through here." Gauss analyzed.

Indeed, although Su Li and the others' team's speed of advancement was not slow, it was not enough to surpass all the teams and pass through the complete wilderness zone. Oscar crouched down and grabbed a handful of soil. He found that the soil on the ground was no longer soft, but black, and it had become gray as if lacking humus, more like bone ash formed after burning.

"The situation is not right. The air here is obviously more humid, and there might be lakes around. Logically speaking, such places should have many transcendent creatures, and even if someone came to clear them out in advance, there should not be no traces of fighting at all."

Looking around, under the moonlight, the surrounding trees became even sparser, and they grew extremely strangely. Some tree trunks were black, and their leaves were gray. They were not as tall as the other plants in the jungle, only about ten meters tall, and the vegetation was even lower. Their leaves were more twisted, as if dead monsters, appearing even darker under the moonlight.

As the five people slowly delved deeper, Oscar, who was peeking into the transcendent power, keenly discovered a pool of water. There was steaming mist emanating from it, and it smelled of sulfur.

Lindsey pointed to the water not far away that was reflecting the moonlight and said to Oscar, "It's time for you to show off. The water there seems to be heavily polluted. You can purify it and replenish our water source."

The water source here was obviously contaminated, but Oscar was confident. He nodded decisively and said, "No problem, this is my specialty."

Nicole nodded to the four of them and said, "In that case, let's go there first to rest. This place should still be within the sphere of influence of the War God Church, but the environment here is complex, and it's very likely that powerful transcendent creatures are lurking around. We need to be more careful and pay attention to the movements around us."

As the five of them arrived at the small lake, Oscar reached out and felt the mist around the water's surface.He soon said slowly, "There are obvious mutations in the plants around the water source, and the temperature of this water is not low. It should be connected to underground spring water. There may be active crustal changes nearby."

As Su Li's spiritual sense spread into the water, he keenly noticed that there were no signs of life in the lake.

Oscar frowned and said, "It shouldn't be a big problem to purify the water here, but I have to jump in and swim."

Seeing that this fat man didn't seem to be joking, Nicole shook her head and said, "Just take some water. The pollution around here should not be underestimated. After we take the water, let's go to a place a little further away to rest."

After observing for a while, Nicole handed the iron pot to Oscar, who filled it with water.

Because it was an underground hot spring, the temperature of the water was quite high. Oscar stuck out a finger and quickly stirred the hot water. The unpleasant smell in the water really disappeared completely, just as the fat man had said.

Lindsey marveled and said to Oscar, "This extraordinary power is indeed useful. How did you do it?"

Oscar was quite proud and handed the iron pot to Su Li, speaking in a deliberately indifferent tone:

"It's nothing. It's just that during an experiment with ritual magic, I accidentally solidified the purification ritual onto my body. It's not entirely a good thing, because the wine that I drink will always be as light as water..."

Before the fat man could finish boasting, Su Li, who was under the protection of the night, suddenly interrupted his self-praise and stared into the distance, saying, "Attention, it seems that there is a transcendent creature ahead."