I control the world with magic - Chapter 271

c272 Failure

Everyone looked at the contract scroll that exuded a strange aura, and showed hesitation on their faces.

Dongfang Yuan said lightly: “At this point, do you think you still have a choice? Either sign the contract or… die.”

The simple word “death” exploded in everyone’s heart like a thunderclap. They seemed to see an endless sea of ​​blood and corpses behind Dongfang Yuan, and the terrifying power made every cell in their body tremble.

Facing the threat of a generation of legends and the huge benefits after the mission was completed, everyone finally chose to sign the contract.

After everyone signed their names on the contract, everyone immediately felt that something seemed to be connected to their souls.

“Very good, now I will explain to you in detail the goal of this mission, which is… to find the first generation of Red King!”

“What!?”

“The first generation of Red King?”

Everyone was in an uproar. They had guessed that this mission was unusual before, but they didn’t expect it to be related to the first generation of Red King.

Dongfang Yuan continued to explain, slowly revealing the secrets of the empire, “In his later years, the first generation of the Red King was chosen to become a nightmare apostle and entered the nightmare world. The first generation of the Red King was powerful and could deal with it calmly even when facing the nightmare world full of crises.

Ordinary nightmare apostles can’t live more than five years, but he lived for ten years! However, one day ten years later, the first generation of the Red King entered the nightmare world for the last time, but never came back, and it has been more than seven years.

Such a long period of time, the first generation of the Red King is likely to have fallen in the nightmare world, but the current emperor is filial and honest, and can’t bear to see the former king’s body wandering in a foreign land, so he specially formed a nightmare team to go to the nightmare world to find the former king, and your task is to find the traces of the former king and bring back the former king’s remains, even if it is a relic, you can be made a noble after you come back, and your descendants will enjoy wealth and glory forever!”

The word “noble” seemed to have a strange magic, firmly attracted everyone’s attention, and made their eyes become hot.

Then Dongfang Yuan took out the portrait of the first generation of the Red King and asked everyone to look at it carefully.

Su Mu took a quick look. The first generation of the Red King did not look very old, about forty years old. His eyebrows were somewhat similar to the contemporary Red King. His posture was as straight as a pine tree, his eyes were deep, and he was majestic without anger. Even through the portrait, he could feel the majesty coming to his face. The momentum of being in a high position for a long time and looking down on the world was particularly eye-catching.

However, his focus was not on the appearance of the first generation of the Red King, but on the dark golden ring on the other’s right index finger – the Supreme Heaven!

Dongfang Yuan’s search for remains and relics was all fake, and the real purpose was the Supreme Heaven!

The Supreme Heaven is also a kind of relic. If a nightmare apostle really encounters it, he will naturally bring it back.

But what Su Mu did not expect was that even though the contract had been signed, Dongfang Yuan still did not intend to tell the real purpose of this mission – to find the Supreme Heaven.

It can be seen how important the Red Flame Royal Family is to the Supreme Heaven. If he had not heard the loud conspiracy of the Red King and others in his sleepwalking state, it would be difficult to know the secrets about the true and false Supreme Heaven.

Dongfang Yuan intentionally or unintentionally emphasized the matter of relics, then took out ten portraits of the first generation of the Red King that he had prepared in advance and handed them to the captains of the ten nightmare teams.

“The Empire has roughly locked down the area where His Majesty the former King last appeared in the nightmare world, and your ten teams will be dispersed to this area, entering different nightmares to search for clues.”

At this time, someone raised a question.

“Lord Dongfang, entering the nightmare world is random, how can our teams enter the designated area at the same time?”

Dongfang Yuan smiled slightly: “The Empire’s understanding of the nightmare world is no less than that of you nightmare apostles, and it has also developed a lot of new technologies based on the characteristics of the nightmare world.

One of them is called soul connection technology, which can connect the souls of your team members to ensure that all members enter the same nightmare, and there is also anchor technology to put you in the corresponding area. The specific details are related to the secrets of the empire, so I am not in a position to explain in detail. You just need to wait for the arrangement.”

After listening to the explanation, everyone couldn’t help but sigh at the foundation of the Red Flame Empire. Just a few technologies are difficult for them, the nightmare apostles, to touch in their entire lives.

“Okay, if you don’t have any other questions, please go. Come on, take them to Lab 1.”

The staff soon appeared in the training ground and led different teams into Lab 1.

After entering the lab, everyone was arranged to ten connected rooms, one team for each room, and each room was filled with a huge instrument.

The instrument was made of dark metal and glass, exuding a cold luster. The huge frame connected the floor and ceiling of the room. The complex mechanical structure was intertwined, and the gears and chains bit each other, making a dull sound.

In the center of the instrument was a glass sphere flashing with white light. I don’t know what liquid was floating in it. There were a lot of white flocs, and these flocs were also glowing, like a glowing magic eye, staring at everything around.

Ten thick metal tentacles were connected to the glass sphere, and they swung slowly in the air like living things.

Such a weird instrument surprised the well-informed nightmare apostles.

Living instrument?

Su Mu narrowed his eyes and looked at the structure of the instrument.

At this time, the staff said indifferently: “Everyone stand under the instrument, the ten metal tentacles will automatically lock and connect to your souls, please cooperate, don’t resist.”

Su Mu raised his lips slightly and walked under the instrument first. His team members saw this and walked over after hesitating for a moment.

The next moment, the ten metal tentacles seemed to be attracted by something. The speed of swinging suddenly accelerated, and they rushed towards their respective targets, and finally hovered above the heads of Su Mu and the ten people.

Hiss!

Accompanied by the sound of snakes spitting out their tongues, the top of the metal tentacles slowly cracked, and countless tiny, white light-emitting thin lines drilled out of them.

These thin lines seemed to have no entity. When they fell on the heads of the people, they easily penetrated the tops of their heads and drilled into them.

Everyone felt strange, and Zhou Hui and others even showed horror on their faces, because they experienced a feeling they had never had before, the feeling of a foreign object piercing the soul, as if something was shuttling back and forth in the deepest part of your body, and the foreign body feeling was very strong.

However, the panic did not last too long. After just three seconds, everyone felt their consciousness sink, their eyelids began to fight, and they fell asleep uncontrollably.

Time fell silent at this moment. In the drowsiness, everyone felt like they had become plankton in the ocean, floating with the waves.

Floating for a year, two years, or one or two seconds? They seemed to have lost their perception of time.

Suddenly, the floating state stopped, the senses began to become clear, and everything around them became vivid, as if they had been in the sea for a long time and suddenly broke out of the water.

Su Mu, who had the strongest mental power, opened his eyes first, but after seeing the scene in front of him, he couldn’t help but narrow his eyes slightly, with an inexplicable look.

What caught his eye was a huge mechanical instrument, precise gears, glowing white glass balls, and ten metal tentacles.

He looked to the side and saw Su Qing, Yan Wu and others, all nine teammates.

At this time, Su Qing also opened her eyes, and then she was stunned: “Why are you still in the laboratory? Is the machine broken?”

Her voice woke everyone up, and everyone’s reactions were basically the same, very surprised.

At this time, a staff member trotted over and apologized: “I’m sorry, everyone. This technology is not mature yet and sometimes it does fail. Please go back and wait patiently until we re-inspect and recharge the instrument before coming back.”

“How do you do things? You fool us with semi-finished products?” Wenxuan said dissatisfiedly.

The staff apologized again and again and said that they would repair it as soon as possible.

“Don’t be angry. He is not the one who really studies the instrument. He is just an operator.” Su Qing hurriedly comforted.

Su Mu glanced at the staff and suddenly asked: “Did other nightmare apostles succeed?”

The staff said a little embarrassedly: “Other teams succeeded, only your team failed.”

Su Mu frowned slightly. Only he and others failed, and everyone else succeeded? Is it a coincidence? Or is there something wrong with his soul?

The staff member scratched his head: “I am also puzzled. Obviously, your first team used the best equipment, but you failed. Logically, the soul threshold we adjusted before should be correct, and it must be enough to cover the peak of your soul fluctuations.

Everyone, you should go back and wait. I will ask the doctor to come over for inspection. I will notify you as soon as it is repaired.”

“Fix it quickly! If other nightmare apostles complete the task first, I will not forgive you!” Wenxuan glared at the staff and then strode out of the room.