46: Deep in the Misty Mountains

Under the warm kitchen light, the faucet dripped.

Li Xue凝 was washing dishes by the cabinet.

Hearing footsteps behind her, she couldn't help but cast a worried glance.

"The military here..."

"It's nothing, they just assigned me a simple task."

Su Lei gently wrapped his arms around his wife's waist, leaning down to whisper in her ear, his breath caressing the skin of her neck.

"Although it's a bit simple here, it's very safe, and Chen Corporation wouldn't dare to extend their reach here."

"Once this task is done, I'll go..."

He paused, then quickly changed his words: "Go buy a luxurious manor, and our family will Move somewhere else."

Li Xue凝 leaned into his embrace, letting out a soft sigh.

"I don't want any luxurious manor, I just want you to be safe and sound."

"This time, the children and I have dragged you down..."

Su Lei kissed her on the forehead.

"What nonsense are you saying? I'm the one who's dragged you down."

"So, I need to make it up to you properly."

The breath caressing her neck instantly brought a blush to her skin.

Su Lei smirked, his large hand slipping under her clothes and beginning to roam.

"Don't... the children will..."

Li Xue凝's voice was as soft as a mosquito's buzz, as she nervously looked towards the living room.

Children's programs were playing on the living room TV, and the faint laughter of Su Yun and Qiaoqiao could be heard.

"Then don't make a sound."

Su Lei chuckled, his palm sliding down her waistline, cupping her thigh, and with a slight lift, he set her on the cabinet.

Li Xue凝 gasped softly, instinctively tightening her arms around his neck, her straight, slender legs wrapping around his waist.

...

The next morning, Su Lei boarded a helicopter and flew south.

Half an hour later, it slowly landed at a temporary camp on the edge of the forest.

This was already within Sector H, the central area of the Misty Mountains.

The boundless primeval forest ahead was shrouded in thick white mist.

Some of the mist condensed on tree trunks and leaves, forming a viscous pus that flowed slowly between the tree trunks like some living creature.

This white mist, seemingly harmless, carried a strange scent of decay intertwined with sweetness in every breath, as if countless tiny insects were crawling into the lungs through the windpipe.

Su Lei quietly surveyed the front.

Behind him, Wu Ming, Zhao Tian, and Li Qingchen couldn't help but cough a few times.

Even with gas masks on, their faces were already faintly green, and a burning sensation came from their lungs.

Su Lei looked back at the three of them, unzipped his tactical backpack, took out two bottles of light green potion, and threw them to them.

"This is as far as we go."

"Antidote, it'll last until you retreat to the camp."

Zhao Tian and the others caught the potions, their gaze involuntarily falling on the gray wolf, which was as large as an ox.

"This cursed place is truly evil; even a First-Order Vicious Beast..."

In just a dozen seconds, its fur began to turn a strange blue-green, and its flesh began to rot.

Wu Ming gulped down the potion, his Adam's apple bobbing: "You, are you sure you're going alone?"

"Without finding the source, too many people would just be sending themselves to their deaths."

With that, Su Lei took off his gas mask and, to the horrified gazes of the three, took a deep breath.

"Wait! You're crazy!"

Li Qingchen's face suddenly changed, and he instinctively reached out to hand over the antidote he hadn't yet drunk.

But in the next moment, a dull rumble of thunder suddenly erupted from within Su Lei's body.

He had activated the Nine Heavens Thunder Shocking Method.

This was the new name he had given to the two Cultivation Techniques after their Fusion.

The moment the miasma entered his lungs, his internal organs simultaneously vibrated violently.

His heart beat like a drum, and the Qi and blood surged through his entire body.

Instantly, the invading toxins were crushed and expelled from his pores, forming a thin, gray mist on his body's surface.

"Tell the engineering team to be ready; wait for my command in two days."

With that, Su Lei strode into the forest, his figure quickly disappearing into the thick mist.

...

Deep in the dense forest.

The dense canopy obscured the sky, without a trace of sunlight, making it impossible to distinguish day from night.

Every step taken produced a "creak" sound.

It could have been the snapping of dry branches, or the crisp sound of some creature's carapace being crushed.

Su Lei's military boots stepped over a thick pile of fallen leaves.

The next second, the rotting leaves suddenly collapsed, revealing a bubbling black swamp below.

Just as the mud was about to reach his boot tops, and his body was about to lose balance.

Su Lei naturally used the Treading Wind and Flowing Clouds technique.

His figure suddenly blurred, instantly moving three meters horizontally, his toes lightly tapping on a "tree root" protruding from the water.

The next moment, the "tree root" beneath his foot suddenly began to writhe.

A giant python, disguised as a dead tree, hissed, flicking its tongue.

Its head shot out like lightning, its venomous fangs, gleaming with an eerie blue light, bit fiercely at his calf!

"Bang!"

Su Lei's fist struck first, accurately hitting the python's vital spot.

There was no flashy Move, just pure force that penetrated the scales, turning the internal organs into a bloody pulp.

The python's limp body crashed into the swamp, quickly swallowed by the gurgling mud.

Su Lei didn't even glance at it, as if he had merely completed a trivial task.

The expression on his face showed no fluctuation as he continued to walk forward.

Here, every step was fraught with danger, every place perilous.

The omnipresent poisonous mist forced him to constantly operate the Nine Heavens Thunder Shocking Method, the power of Qi and blood vibrating throughout his body to expel toxins.

Without a map and unable to discern direction, Su Lei could only rely on his senses to advance.

Since the Meditation Technique replaced sleep, his Mental Energy had unknowingly surpassed that of ordinary people by dozens of times.

His hearing captured the faint sound of flowing water three kilometers away.

His sense of smell distinguished the spores of seven different poisonous fungi.

His skin could perceive the slightest changes in airflow in the air...

He even developed a strange "sixth sense," scanning for life fluctuations within a thousand-meter radius like a detector.

The silence, quiet, and walking along the way gradually made Su Lei forget the hustle and bustle of the mundane world, casting aside some distracting thoughts, leaving only battle in his heart.

He walked towards one powerful aura after another.

The occasional snap of a dry branch immediately drew hidden gazes.

In the mist, countless scarlet eyes appeared in the darkness, only to retreat in terror as he passed.

"Rustle......"

The bushes thirty meters to his left suddenly shook violently.

Su Lei didn't even turn his head, merely waved his hand, and an alloy throwing knife shot through the air.

"Pfft!"

A giant shadow tarantula, hidden in the mist, was heavily pinned to a tree trunk.

Green blood splattered everywhere, instantly corroding honeycomb-like holes.

Such slaughter was constantly unfolding.

A giant python that ambushed him was internally shattered by a punch and hung from a treetop.

A cloud-like swarm of poisonous bees was pulverized by the force of his fist.

Cannibalistic plants disguised as vines were uprooted and torn into several pieces...

As he delved deeper, there were no longer any traces of animals, replaced by endless poisonous insects and mutated plants that seemed to be alive.

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