From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 286: Main Mission Completed, Test and Alliance

When the team stopped to rest, Lu Heng gathered all 20 human psychics who were participating in this mission and held a small meeting.

"Gather everyone here. I have something to say. This matter is very important. It can be said to be a matter of life and death..."

Lu Heng started the conversation, looked around to gauge everyone's expressions, and then got to the point:

"I think everyone should have heard a secret through various means, the secret of the Moon Well Spring Water, but I want to remind you that this Moon Well Spring Water must be sent to the Moon Shadow Forest.

“Let me put this straight, no matter who tries to touch the water of the Moon Well, I will take action, and I will kill them.

"Whether it's the Abyss Summoners, demons, or any other forces, once they start fighting, it's a hostile relationship. There's no room for easing."

When everyone heard this, they all started to think in their hearts.

One person asked: "Is it true that the water from the Moon Well can upgrade skills?"

For Lu Heng, if he wants to upgrade his skills, he just needs to have enough divine energy and then practice his skill proficiency to the maximum.

However, for ordinary psychics, the only way to upgrade their skills is to complete world quests.

It was useless to deny this question, so Lu Heng nodded and confirmed: "From the known information, it is true that the Moon Well water can indeed upgrade skills.

“But I advise you not to have such crooked thoughts.

"First think about where you heard this secret from and why everyone heard this secret?"

Xie Shien continued, "In fact, it is very clear that the elves deliberately released this information to us."

"Why would they leak such a secret?" someone expressed doubt.

Lu Heng thought about it and solved everyone's doubts: "The elven civilization has been fighting against the abyss for seven hundred years, and there are countless recruits who know the secret of the Moon Well.

“That is to say, for the elves, they no longer care about another civilization knowing this secret.

“Even if they wanted to hide it, they couldn’t hide it for long.

“So, they don’t mind leaking the secret and then using it to test us.

“Yes, I’ll tell you the answer directly.

“This mission is an obvious test to see if we are bandits.

“It has been twenty days since we were teleported to this world, and everyone should have obtained the information about the last batch of human superpowers.

“Yes, among the last batch of human superpowers recruited, there was a looting team.

“This bandit group attacked many places of the elves and stole many treasures.

“The fact that the elves did not become hostile to us from the beginning is enough to prove that this race is indeed friendly.

“However, the previous batch of humans planted the seeds of distrust, and we can only bear it.

“So this escort mission is also a test.

“If I’m not mistaken, there should be an elite group of elves following us.

"As long as we start to plunder the Moon Well, we will be hunted down by the elves.

“By that time, this Abyss Battlefield will be considered a failure.

"In short, everyone, remember one thing: we were recruited here to help the elves, not to be their enemy.

"This is the basic logic behind the world's will to recruit us. If we follow this goal, we will get the rewards we deserve.

“As for wanting to take shortcuts, it must be done without violating the meaning of the call-up.

"From a civilizational perspective, plundering the Moon Well's spring water has no positive significance in resisting the abyss.

"Even though the elves had the Moon Well, they were unable to repel the invasion of the Abyss.

"What can we change by robbing this portion of Moon Well water?
“I know that there will definitely be people who think that if they can grab the Moon Well water, they will become stronger.

"But I repeat, this Moon Well water must be delivered to Moon Shadow Forest intact. Anyone who touches it will die!"

The tone of the last word was very harsh.

Everyone fell silent.

Tao Yalun, Wu Weibing and nine others were military veterans with strict discipline. After listening to Lu Heng's analysis, they all made promises:
"We obey orders and listen to the commander."

Rong Xincheng also quickly expressed his opinion that everything would be arranged by Lu Heng.

Among these 20 people, Lu Heng can control 16 of them, and the real uncertain factor is actually only the remaining 4 people.

It is not difficult for 16 people to supervise 4 people.

Moreover, among the 16 people, there are more than 4 perceivers.

There is no problem with one-on-one defense. Even if these four people really have ulterior motives, there is enough power to control the situation.

After everyone present had established the mindset that the Moon Well water could not be touched, Lu Heng continued to add more information:
“There are also some other things that may happen that need to be discussed with everyone.

“Everyone has experienced the Abyss Battlefield many times, and you should know that the situation in the Abyss Battlefield will slowly change over time.

"This mission of escorting the Moon Well water will likely attract the covetousness of the Abyss Summoners in addition to us.

“That is to say, there may be Abyss Recruiters who receive the mission to attack the escort team.

“So during this escort mission, we need to be vigilant against Abyss Summoners or other Abyss Demons that may appear at any time.

"We can take this opportunity to complete the first challenge mission."

This sentence not only cut off the thoughts of the psychics present to snatch the water from the Moon Well, but also gave them a way to obtain the reward.

With rules and restrictions and ways to obtain rewards, the combination of sticks and carrots will naturally make them obey orders.

……

at the same time.

Five kilometers behind the Moon Well Spring Water escort team, there was another elven team following.

This team is none other than the Elf Queen's Guard, led by Fiona, and is even more elite.

Not long after the human psychics finished their meeting, an elf arcanist came to Fiona and reported:
"They have seen through our arrangement. The human named Lu Heng has ordered others not to snatch the magic spring water."

Fiona rode on the hippogryph and walked slowly on the ground. After hearing the arcanist's report, she sighed:

"As expected, the trap is still too crude. But it doesn't matter. As long as we can complete this escort mission, our goal will be achieved."

After she said this, she handed the team over to her adjutant, then pulled the hippogryph's reins and rode it into the sky.

The horned eagle was very fast and soon flew above the escort team.

Fiona jumped off the back of the horned eagle, somersaulted in the air, and landed. She waved at Lu Heng and said, "Let's talk."

Lu Heng reached out and patted Su Muyu on the back, then jumped off the mechanical tiger's back and followed Fiona into the dead woods on the side of the road.

Fiona was walking in the dead woods. She stretched out her hand and broke off a dead tree branch. Looking at the broken end, she said, "You know what? When I was very young, this was a vibrant jungle with wild steel flowers all over the mountains. Now there are only dead branches left."

This is the environmental change caused by the pollution in the abyss, making it difficult for plants to survive.

However, such a big change in the environment cannot happen in a short period of time, it will take at least hundreds of years.

Well, this General Fiona’s childhood may indeed have been hundreds of years ago.

In fact, it's not just the dead forest here, similar situations have occurred in many places on this continent.

The environment is deteriorating, vegetation is decreasing, animals are migrating, and the whole world is in decline.

It seems that abyss pollution will make the environment unsuitable for survival, but this is not absolute.

The environmental changes caused by the pollution of the Abyss do make it more difficult for elves, humans, and even Dark Iron Dwarves to survive, but this is not the case for all creatures.

Abyss races would like this kind of environment, such as demons, vampires, abyss worms, and similar creatures that can survive in an environment polluted by the abyss.

If we look at this issue from the perspective of the abyss race, abyss pollution makes more worlds suitable for their survival.

Lu Heng observed the expression on her face and said, "If we can't find a way to purify the abyss, perhaps I will go through everything you have gone through."

Fiona turned around and sighed, "I really envy you for being born in a world that has not been polluted by the abyss, breathing the cleanest air, and tasting the most pristine river water."

When she was born, the abyss had already swallowed up half of the Quel'dorei continent, so she could only hear from the elders of the tribe about the elves' past wealth and prosperity and had no chance to see it with her own eyes.

Lu Heng smiled helplessly and said, "The elves at least have magic to resist the invasion of the abyss. The human world does not even have magical energy, and it will fall into the abyss faster, much faster than the elf world."

Although the Quel'dorei world has been devastated by the pollution of the Abyss, it has persisted for at least seven hundred years, and the elven civilization can still maintain a complete cultural heritage. Because the elves have moon wells, although the number of moon wells has been reduced due to the pollution of the Abyss, the elves have indeed slowed down the speed of the Abyss invasion by using the magical energy of the moon wells.

The human world is different.

Technological civilization, without the power of magic, cannot find a way to resist the invasion of the abyss.

If the current situation continues, humans may fall into the abyss before the elven civilization.

In other words, the human world is an accelerated version of the abyss invasion.

When Fiona looked at Lu Heng, her eyes were somewhat complicated.

Because she knew what Lu Heng was talking about.

In fact, in the past seven hundred years, the elves have been summoned to many worlds and have witnessed many worlds fall into the abyss.

They tried to stop it, tried to help, but no world they passed through was spared, because they could never find a way to purify the abyss.

Fiona bent down and took out a stink bug from the dead tree stump, but she did not crush the bug to death. Instead, she put it back into the small hole under the roots of the tree and covered the hole with dead leaves.

Because she recognized that these were insects that originally existed in the world of Quel'dorei.

In this land polluted by the abyss, even the originally unwelcome bedbugs become a little more adorable as long as they are not from the abyss.

She straightened up and turned around to ask, "What do you think can be done to purify the abyss?"

Lu Heng was silent for a long time before answering: "I am also looking for the answer."

Fiona then asked, "So, if you are called to other worlds, do you think you should help the civilization there resist the abyss, or plunder crazily to strengthen yourself?"

Lu Heng has thought about this question many times, from his previous life to this life, and he already has the answer in his heart, but this answer is not the solution to the abyss invasion.

"I believe that the will that summoned us is hoping that the intelligent civilizations of all worlds can unite and find a way to purify the abyss..."

This is Lu Heng’s current answer, but he has not yet said the second half of the sentence.

Because no one knows whether doing so can purify the abyss.

Perhaps after struggling to the end, one will find that the abyss cannot be purified and conscription is just a meaningless resistance.

If someone knew how to purify the abyss, then this would not be a problem. We just need to work towards the known method.

It is precisely because everything in the abyss is unknown that this disaster is difficult to resolve.

Perhaps humans, elves, Dark Iron Dwarves and other civilizations are just working towards a hope that does not exist at all.

Fiona slowly exhaled a long breath and asked, "Do you think there is a way to purify the abyss in the world of gods?"

Lu Heng didn’t know the answer, and he never found the answer in his two lifetimes.

Not to mention the few years that humans have been in contact with the abyss, the elven civilization has been resisting the invasion of the abyss for seven hundred years.

After such a long time, if it were a human being, I'm afraid they would have given up hope.

Relatively speaking, the elves may be even less confident.

They have seen many civilizations fall like meteors, and humans are just one of them.

This is also the reason why the elves do not show hostility towards humans.

Because in their eyes, if human beings are a short-sighted civilization, it will not be long before they become like those extinct civilizations, and will go through the process of decline and destruction in just a few years.

Even in their eyes, such a civilization would be considered pathetic, just like a summer insect cannot talk about ice.

Are humans as short-sighted as summer insects?
Maybe not all, but there are definitely short-sighted individuals.

Lu Heng looked up at the gray sky and said slowly, "I hope to see the result, whether it is light or darkness. Even if I will fall into the abyss in the end, at least I have tried my best."

Fiona could sense Lu Heng's unique temperament and said with interest, "You are different from the last batch of humans recruited. There were bandits among the last batch of humans."

There are raiding groups among human mutants, and this cannot be stopped.

Because the Abyss Battlefield is a lawless place, all codes of conduct have only one standard, and that is morality.

And something as illusory as morality only exists in civilization.

This is because after wisdom gave birth to civilization, there were no substantial behavioral norms that emerged.

Lu Heng did not deny her accusation and answered frankly: "In any civilization composed of multiple individuals, there will be evil individuals."

This sentence is the truth and applies to any civilization, including the elves.

Fiona smiled and stretched out her hand, saying, "Let me introduce myself to you again. My name is Fiona, and I am the general of the Queen's Guard of Quel'dorei and the counselor of the Queen's otherworldly civilization. Hello, ally from the human world. I hope we can work together to find a way to purify the abyss."

Her terminology changed from "friends from the human world" to "allies from the human world."

This is a huge change in attitude.

Lu Heng didn't expect to gain the trust of this elven female general so quickly, and hurriedly reached out and shook hands with her.

The action of shaking hands is part of the etiquette of human civilization. Fiona learned it from the previous batch of human superpowers and uses it to express friendliness.

It was at this moment that Lu Heng saw that the first main task was completed.

The first main task is to find the elven capital of Koros and establish diplomatic relations with the elves.

I helped out in the workshop in Kolos City for many days, and my reputation among the elves increased a lot, but the first main task was never completed.

I didn't expect that the mission conditions would be achieved at this time.

This mission can only be completed if the elves recognize their status as an ally.

Not only Lu Heng completed it, but all the human mutants recruited from the entire Quel'dorei continent completed the task at the same time.

This mission is a collective mission, and its original intention is to let all human superpowers work together to establish diplomatic relations with the elven civilization and reach an alliance.

Under normal circumstances, this mission should be completed when meeting the Elf Queen to achieve an alliance.

However, Fiona's identity is rather special, and she came with a secret mission from the Elf Queen. She is also a diplomatic counselor of another world civilization and can conduct diplomatic affairs on behalf of the Elf Queen Orianna.

When she left Kolos, Orianna gave her this power to decide her relationship with humans.

She saw a different temperament in Lu Heng, and Lu Heng had already cracked the trap of this magic spring escort mission.

So she decided to form an alliance, but currently she only trusts humans represented by Lu Heng, not every human being.

The reason why the alliance was formed so quickly was not just because of this chat.

Lu Heng was in Kolos City, helping the elves temper their weapons. Su Muyu, Lin Zeyu and others in the team were also helping.

There is also the information provided during the meeting with the Elf Queen Orianna, and the accumulation of multiple reputations that led to this result.

In addition, there is another reason that drives the elves to establish diplomatic relations, and that is time.

There are only ten days left until the end of the Abyss Battlefield.

In other words, a crisis will surely come within ten days.

The elves have been summoned to many abyss battlefields and are very familiar with the rules of the abyss battlefields, so they know that this crisis is bound to come.

They need human help to prevent this crisis from happening.

However, not every human being is trustworthy.

The elves need to choose a trustworthy person from among the human mutants as soon as possible.

That's why there is this mission of escorting the magic spring water.

Before Fiona left Kolos, Queen Oriana's order to her was to choose one human who could withstand the test to be her ally.

Lu Heng gathered all the human superpowers to hold a meeting and solved the test in advance.

Hence this alliance.

Just as the two men shook hands, two cries suddenly came from the sky.

One sound was from the double-headed bird, and the other was from the horned hippogryph.

"coming!"

Fiona put her fingers in her mouth and blew a whistle, calling the Hippogryph to swoop down. Then she leaped onto its back, rushed into the sky, and turned back to shout to Lu Heng on the ground:
"The escort team was attacked. Fight the enemy first. We can talk about the rest later."

(End of this chapter)