Only I can make them stronger

"Understood!" The communication between the two mercenaries was so efficient that the others couldn't even interrupt. After responding, Shana narrowed her eyes and checked the situation ahead.

On the horizon where light and shadow intertwined, several advance troops had already rushed over.

"It's the [Pseudo-Demon]! It's a bit troublesome..." After seeing the enemy's figure clearly, Shana's expression became a little ugly.

"Pseudo-horror demon..." Xia Ye quickly recalled the characteristics of this terrifying beast in his mind -

Its appearance is between that of a human and an ape, with blue rational crystals inlaid on its body. It has an ugly face, agile movements, poor physical resistance, but strong resistance to spell-like and mental attacks.

In addition, unlike Type 1 to Type 3 Deinobeasts, Type 4 Deinobeasts have begun to possess a certain degree of simulated biological characteristics and no longer rely solely on simple physical perception to detect the surroundings and enemies.

The most acute sense of the pseudo-demon is its eyes.

The pair of protruding eyeballs almost occupied half of their faces, and the interior was filled with blue and white lenses. At the same time, scarlet blood threads spread inside, and the muscle tissue around the eye sockets was pulled along with the rotation of the eyeballs.

"How ugly..." This was the only sentence that came to Xia Ye's mind when he saw the enemy's appearance.

In comparison, Xiaojiu looks a little weird, but he does look a lot more handsome.

"The pseudo-horrors have a high resistance to spells. It's hard for me to cause substantial damage to them at medium range!" Seeing the enemy getting closer and closer, Shana didn't care so much and began to condense a ball of light blue electricity in her hands.

"Because of the characteristics of the highway monsters, the firepower installed on this vehicle is all physical bullets instead of real bullets. It is estimated that it will not produce any killing effect. It is a complete waste of energy reserves to shoot at it..." Y gritted his teeth and said:

"Then follow the previous plan, slow down their speed, and get rid of them in the stone forest ahead!"

After saying that, she stepped on the accelerator and the speed of the whole car began to increase rapidly.

"There's still no problem with this..." Shana said loudly, and the electric light between her hands began to reveal some impatience.

The first pseudo-demon had already pounced forward and was about to hit the windshield in front, but a burst of blue lightning suddenly struck it and knocked it several meters away.

The previous attack was quite powerful. The chest of the Pseudo-Demon was obviously charred by the electric shock, and blue juice burst out from the center of the impact.

"Wow!!!" But the enemy flipped several times in the air and fell to the ground, his eyes began to become bloodshot, and he showed no intention of retreating. Instead, he pounced on him with an even more violent attitude.

In addition, more and more pseudo-terrible demons came one after another, blocking the road ahead into a blue sea.

"Damn it!" Shana gritted her teeth and exerted her maximum rational energy in one breath. Two blue electric snakes suddenly lit up around her and attacked fiercely forward.

[Jumping Arc SP] is more suitable in this kind of group battle scene. Two electric snakes run back and forth between the pseudo-terrors. Although they still cannot kill them, at least every jump will make the target's body stiff for a moment.

Coupled with the extremely high-frequency electric shock of the electric arc, this group of pseudo-horror demons really fell to the ground one by one and were temporarily paralyzed.

"Well done! Since you guys won't charge, then I will!"

Y slapped the steering wheel, his eyes flashed, and he continued to step on the accelerator and rushed straight towards the ugly monsters.

The attack of the pseudo-terror demons just now would have damaged the car, but now they have lost their ability to move for a short period of time, why not take advantage of it to kill it?

This armored vehicle was not borrowed for free!

"Boom, boom, boom!" A violent bumpy feeling was felt, and everyone felt as if an irregularly shaped speed bump had just passed under the wheels.

At this time, the side of the car was stained with large areas of blue fluorescent juice, and there were even a few broken limbs rolled up in the gaps between the wheels.

"..." Luo Qi looked at the monster's body fluids and broken organs splashing around, and her expression became quite uncomfortable.

She seldom went out into the wilderness, and her tolerance for bloody scenes was much lower than that of the others.

As for Xia Ye... he has seen many bloodier scenes in the game, and crushing zombies with a car is also a classic operation, so he has become accustomed to it.

“Don’t relax yet, there are still many of them alive and they are recovering their mobility!” Shana turned around and looked at the group of pseudo-terrors that had moved away from her. The ones that had not been crushed just now had half stood up and started to sprint again, staggeringly.

Those skinny guys are faster than this car!

Shana aimed at one of them and fired another [Jumping Arc SP], but this time it was obvious that it had almost no effect.

"Damn it! I just used my third-level ability twice in a row. Now my body's energy reserves are a bit low, and the power is seriously insufficient!"

"And these guys might have some patience with the electric attribute in the short term!"

The fastest pseudo-demon was less than five meters away from the vehicle. It suddenly jumped up and pounced on Shana in the car.

If it really pounced on the car, in such a narrow space, even if we could kill it, it would be difficult to ensure that there would be no casualties.

Thinking of this, Shana did not dodge, but put her hand to her waist, ready to draw out the dagger and stand on the roof to fight the opponent.

But at this moment, a brown figure suddenly jumped out at a faster speed than the other.

"Leave it to Leah!"

Leah's clear voice was heard in the air at last.

Before she could finish her words, she had already collided with the pseudo-demon.

Only then did Shana see clearly that at this moment, Leah's eyes were fierce, her muscles were tense, and she was exuding a strong wild aura.

The latter didn't even engage in a fight with the opponent, but used a rather rough method to stab a claw directly into the chest of the unsuspecting pseudo-terror demon, took out a blue crystal that looked like a heart, then stepped heavily on its body and returned lightly to the car, lying on the roof in a half-prone posture, staring fiercely at the pursuers behind.

The pseudo-demon with a big hole in its chest was kicked down from the air and fell to the ground like a rag bag, quickly losing its life.

"Fuck! So cool!" Xia Ye, who was just about to take out a crowbar for close combat, exclaimed in amazement upon seeing this rough fighting style.

42. Enter the highway

"Hold on tight!" At this time, Y's voice came from the driver's seat, shouting in the direction of Leah.

Before he finished speaking, the SUV made a sharp turn and turned into a road lined with jagged stone pillars.

The pseudo-demons, shocked by Leah's brutal attack, were about to chase, but for some reason they stopped again, stood at the starting point of the road, stared ahead with wide eyes, and watched the group leave.

Seeing this, Leah jumped back into the car lightly and soon returned to her usual innocent and lovely appearance.

"Liya's third-level ability! Super fierce mode! Isn't it amazing!" While wiping her hands with a towel, she raised her head and proudly asked for credit in the direction of Xia Ye.

"It's really amazing. It feels very oppressive in that state."

"Those pseudo-terror demons were so frightened that they dared not pursue them."

Xia Ye nodded in agreement. This time, she had no chance to fight back during the entire encounter. From what she could see, Leah and Shana's strength had obviously greatly improved after entering the third level.

"Are they really scared by Leah?" But Shana's brows still did not relax at all, but became more serious.

"They don't dare to enter this area." But Y directly gave a more tense answer.

"The stone forest nearby looks very abrupt, and it obviously has a different physical composition from the surrounding areas..." Luo Qi, who had been staying in the car and carefully observing the surroundings, also gave her judgment.

"Is it because there is a particularly powerful being entrenched here?"

"Bingo! It's a Type 6 monster!" Y answered without hiding anything.

"..."

"..."

Xia Ye and Shana, who usually provide tactical planning, fell silent the moment they heard about the six types of monsters.

"Isn't this... a level 4 danger zone? Why does a type 6 exist?" Xia Ye asked with some difficulty after half a day.

Like the aliens, the classification of the Devil Beasts also has a big hurdle every three types, so the sixth type of Devil Beast is basically only one step away from the top-level high-risk lord. It is the most terrifying type of existence among the middle-stream threats in the wilderness, and it is also a nightmare that low- and middle-level aliens would never want to encounter when going out into the wilderness.

So Xia Ye actually has another question he wants to ask, which is why Y insisted on driving here even though he knew there was such a scary guy here.

"Because the six types of monsters here are quite special, they are trigger-predator types, [Multi-tailed Stone Scorpion]." As if seeing through Xia Ye's doubts and questions, Y chuckled and said casually, and by the way, he made a sharp turn and passed through several clusters of stone pillars.

"This type of beast usually stays dormant for a long time and does not actively sense the surrounding physical energy field to attack. Only when an object with physical energy triggers its tactile limbs buried underground will it wake up for a short time and come to hunt."

"And these stone pillars around are inorganic substances specially formed to conceal its tactile limbs and create hunting grounds. Therefore, those pseudo-terror demons that have gathered here for a long time will know that they cannot enter the front casually when they see this."

"So, what you mean is that you are confident that you won't trigger the tactile limbs of this multi-tailed stone scorpion?" Xia Ye asked nervously but with some curiosity.

Just now he did notice that Y's driving route was very strange and changeable, and it would turn in an unexpected direction at some point.

"Of course! I've already got the entire route map to the destination. This area is a special attention area marked in red, so I have avoided all possible locations of tactile limbs!" Y smiled confidently.

"So now for us, it's as safe here as in the city."

…………

An hour later, just as Y said, the group drove out of the stone forest area safely.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as they watched the road ahead gradually become wider again.

It is absolutely impossible to say that I was not nervous at all during the journey just now.

After all, this was probably Y's first time walking, and even if she had memorized the positions of her tactile limbs, there was still the possibility of mis-triggering them.

Only Shana's expression did not relax from beginning to end. Even after leaving the dangerous six-type monster territory, she still frowned and looked out the window with a thoughtful look on her face.

For a long period of time afterwards, I don’t know if it was because of good luck or for some other reason, but I basically had smooth sailing.

The few Type 4 monsters that occasionally appeared did not pose much threat to the crowd.

Finally, after nearly ten hours of travel, Xia Ye saw a familiar object appear on the roadside ahead.

That's a sign.

A metal pole stood abruptly on the ground, with a forward arrow and the sign "Ahead..." printed in blue, yellow and white on the top.

This kind of road sign could be seen everywhere in the previous life, but it looked out of place when it appeared on the Hill Continent.

The sign was covered with a rusty red substance that looked like dried blood, making it difficult to see the logo clearly, which made him feel inexplicably weird.

"We've reached the highway area. Next, the journey will be truly dangerous." It was obvious that Y also understood the significance of this sign. After slowing down slightly and looking at it for a few seconds, he stepped on the accelerator and drove forward.

"Is that the road down there?" Leah asked curiously, leaning against the window and pointing at the ground whose original gray-black color could still be barely seen.

Unlike the barren wilderness where nothing else exists, the road here has obvious signs of a paved road, and there are some crooked and meaningless short pillars on both sides from time to time.

"It's a bit similar to the style of the city, but it also seems to be very different." It was the first time that Luo Qi saw such a scene, and she looked out the window with Liya.

"Don't forget to pay attention to the traces of battle on the surrounding roads... Anko and Canaanzi may have passed by here as well." Shana kept her serious look and gave a reminder.

Apart from Y who was driving seriously, only Xia Ye said nothing.

because……

It's so similar.

It was so similar that he felt as if he was on some dilapidated highway in the urban-rural fringe of his previous life.

Although he knew very well that this was definitely not Earth after studying the history of Hill Continent, and that SEEK would not allow him to play any plot of rebuilding a new world after the end of the Earth, this weird sense of incongruity made him feel very uncomfortable.

In a wasteland fantasy world, he actually saw a scene that he was very familiar with, but this scene was desolate and dead, which always made him feel an inexplicable sense of despair.

"There is a house!" At this time, Leah's voice attracted his attention.

Following the direction Leah pointed, Xia Ye discovered that about fifty meters ahead on the roadside, there was actually a row of townhouses that looked extremely similar to the American highway motels in the movies.

43. Motel Night (Part )

"The style of this building seems to be subtly different from the architectural style in the city." Luo Qi said as he stood in front of the house and looked it up and down.

“The more I look at it, the stranger it seems… It’s like some kind of ancient relic has appeared before us in a very urbanized way…” Shana was patrolling back and forth vigilantly.

Ever since she entered the highway area, a faint feeling of uneasiness had been lingering in her heart, making her feel quite uncomfortable.

"I've checked it, there's no problem." At this time, the white flames in Xia Ye's eyes slowly faded away, and he said with a complicated expression.

Just now, they had a discussion about the houses in front of them, and finally concluded that these houses were most likely covered with special elements, or even might have been hunting scenes deliberately created by some strange wilderness creatures, which is why they were preserved so well in the Level 4 danger zone, which is already considered a relatively deep wilderness.

That's why he decided to use [True Insight] to check it out carefully and collect as much information as possible about the highway area.

But fortunately, and also regrettably, he didn't see anything special.

Everything here is exactly the same as the surrounding rational environment, without any abrupt or out-of-place color.

"So, we're going to sleep here today?" Y's expression looked much more relaxed than the others, and he casually made a suggestion that Xia Ye and Shana subconsciously wanted to reject.

"Don't worry, think about it... It's still about four hours away from reaching Highway Town, but the time is already close to ten o'clock in the evening."

"I don't need to explain to you the dangers of driving at high speed in a Class 4+ danger zone at night, right?"

"So finding a place to rest is basically inevitable. Then...is there any essential difference between being in the wilderness and being here?"

"If not, then at least this place looks more comfortable, right?"

"Even if we have to stay alert all night, we can still have a cushion or even a sofa... We can also play some card games, isn't that nice?"

"What do you think, Xia Ye?"

Y spoke a long speech in one breath, and finally looked at Xia Ye with his big black eyes, which flickered brightly under the light of the rational lamp.