You're sending max-level players to be cannon fodder?

As the world turned white, Zhong Xun's heart, which had been filled with hatred and resentment, actually felt a genuine sense of relief and peace.

No one wants to live for revenge, which means that everything he had gone through was like purgatory.

Even after these emotions subsided, Zhong Xun was still unwilling to give up, or rather, uneasy.

Meng Jing heard that this person was extremely principled. The responsibility on his shoulders and the ever-increasing danger of pollutants made him abandon his tactful style and act decisively, which made him too easy to offend people.

As if sensing his emotions, a breath of oxygen was passed between his lips and teeth. Almost instantly, his internal organs, which had been clenched into a ball, began to spasm violently due to the thirst. As Zhong Xun swallowed the oxygen, he frowned uncomfortably. He slowly opened his eyes and then met those deep, dark eyes in the dim water.

Zhong Xun thought it was a hallucination before he died.

If that's the case, at least there will be fewer regrets.

The next second, Meng Jingting grabbed Zhong Xun's head and kissed him fiercely. His lungs filled up again, and his oxygen-deprived brain slowly regained its rationality. The pheromone barrier separated him from the water.

Even in oxygen-deficient environments, S-class creatures have a mature survival mechanism. Zhong Xun watched Meng Jingting's retreating figure as he swam upwards with him, and he knew clearly that the man was angry.

Fortunately, Zhong Xun's mind raced. No one knew about the existence of "Hidden". The miasma that trapped Xie Wencheng and the others could be said to be the work of the banyan tree, and he was dragged in without even realizing it.

Frequent incidents during missions couldn't be attributed to him.

Zhong Xun reached for Meng Jingting's wrist with his other hand, but it was broken free.

"..."

"Come here..." The soft voice echoed again from underwater.

Zhong Xun looked down at the "abyss," but Meng Jingting didn't react at all, indicating that he hadn't heard it.

"come over……"

"Please, come here..."

Zhong Xun suddenly stopped, and Meng Jingting turned to look at him.

  

Zhong Xun pointed underwater, indicating that there was something there.

Anyway, with the Grand Judge here, Zhong Xun can swim back and forth in there.

Zhong Xun gestured: "Go take a look."

Meng Jingting listened with a cold face, clearly unwilling.

Zhong Xun gently tugged at his arm.

A strong emotion flashed across Meng Jingting's eyes before he rushed into the water first, with Zhong Xun protected behind him.

Their figures were quickly swallowed by darkness.

The solid feel in his hand didn't frighten Zhong Xun. Just then, Meng Jingting took out a flare from his waist and fired it. The sound was swallowed by the water, but after a string of bubbles, the bottom of the water was suddenly illuminated by a burst of fire.

Zhong Xun had prepared himself for the eerie scene of seeing large patches of "hair" wrapped around him, but it was empty. Before the flares went out, all they saw were tree roots.

That's right, it's the roots of the banyan tree that are polluting it.

It's hard to imagine that its roots can penetrate so deep into the water.

"You've come," the voice said softly, carrying a sense of longing and relief that Zhong Xun couldn't understand.

Zhong Xun quickly discovered the core, which was tangled with tree roots, and he was startled.

Previously, eliminating the source of pollution involved removing the core as well. However, at such a depth, ammunition simply cannot penetrate it. Once the banyan tree ignites the miasma, tens of thousands of spores will be instantly released.

Meng Jing couldn't see the core; he relied solely on intuition and scanning to determine that this was the weak point of the banyan tree's contaminants.

The dragon's wings slowly parted the water, and a Class A plant pollutant could not withstand the fatal blow of a Class S pollutant.

But Zhong Xun stopped Meng Jing from listening.

He was still wearing black leather gloves. He slowly pressed down on the tree trunk. Zhong Xun could clearly feel that the roots seemed to come alive. From tightly wrapping the core, they began to spread out one by one. The tree trunk collapsed, and Zhong Xun easily reached in and touched the core.

"Finally..." the voice sighed with satisfaction.

It actually expected Zhong Xun to take the core.

Zhong Xun never hesitated, but at this moment a sudden, inexplicable bitterness welled up in his heart, and Meng Jingting patted him on the shoulder.

Zhong Xun instantly snapped out of this mood. Regardless of whether it was the hallucinogenic power of pollutants, since you've been looking forward to it so much... Zhong Xun grasped the purple core. Because it was essentially energy, it could be quickly dragged into the seabed of the mind by the mental tentacles, lying side by side with Du Ruosen's core.

Pollutants that have lost their core will quickly disappear in a short time, the water flow will become turbulent, and stones will continuously roll down from above.

With a flick of its dragon wings, Zhong Xun was carried upwards rapidly by Meng Jingting.

Before the small hole could be blocked, Zhong Xun was forcefully thrown upwards by the man, breaking through the water barrier and landing on the soft grass.

Zhong Xun looked towards the entrance, and Meng Jingting appeared the next second.

Meng Jingting climbed up fiercely and ruthlessly. Ignoring Zhong Xun's retreating posture, he grabbed the young man's ankle and dragged him to his side. Zhong Xun's combat suit had run out of oxygen, so Meng Jingting quickly swapped his protective hood with Zhong Xun's, using the pheromone barrier as cover.

Zhong Xun: "You..."

Meng Jingting said, "I'm not in a good mood right now."

Garlic bird, garlic bird, Zhong Xun shut up. Anyway, the toxic gases here won't cause any extreme pollution to Meng Jingting.

A mushroom that was releasing spores withered.

All the vegetation here is withering away.

What Zhong Xun didn't know was that this "miasma" had been upgraded to A+ level half an hour earlier because the "miasma" range suddenly expanded by five kilometers. Several police officers were forcibly pulled in before they could react, and the hallucinations took effect immediately. The subsequent reinforcements found them one by one and sent them to the hospital in time.

The small space where Xie Wencheng and the others were located lasted for three minutes.

However, when Xie Wencheng came out three minutes later and didn't see Zhong Xun, he looked horrified and said to Xu Hengzhou next to him, "I think I'm hallucinating again."

Xu Hengzhou: "...Hallucination my foot! Zhong Xun is gone!"

However, they could no longer get close to the banyan tree. The pollution concentration reached a new high, and the two adjudicators immediately foamed at the mouth. Xie Wencheng had no choice but to issue a retreat order.

Just as Xie Wencheng was dragging his men toward the entrance of the "mist" with uneven steps, thinking about how to hang himself, a dragon's wings spread open above his head, sweeping in a clear breeze. Meng Jingting lowered a protective barrier and rushed toward the banyan tree in the blink of an eye.

Hsieh Wen-cheng: "I'm alive!"

Xu Hengzhou nodded in agreement and wiped the sweat from his brow.

It wasn't entirely because Zhong Xun was the leader of the Omega that they were nervous. Losing any member during a battle would result in a half-month suspension and the writing of a thick self-criticism and analysis report, which would be reviewed and screened word by word by the higher-ups. Not to mention that they had lost the only medic in the team battle!

Back to the present, Meng Jingting's black hair was wet. He casually ran his fingers through it, and his serious demeanor was replaced by a natural wildness of an Alpha. The man's face was really ugly, and any judge present would have gone weak in the knees.

"How did you get in?" Meng Jing asked.

Zhong Xun stared intently for a long while before speaking earnestly, "I kind of want to kiss you."

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