Chapter 99: Chapter 99: Groundwater and Optical Invisibility
The mist descended, enveloping the whole town.
Qin Tian had just finished cultivating the "Frost Meditation Technique" and was about to take a short nap when he suddenly saw the white fog emerging from the window.
"The mist is here."
Qin Tian’s eyes suddenly sharpened. After waiting quietly for a moment, he opened the window and leaped down.
The military camp was deathly silent, without a single sound. The fog was thick, carrying a slightly damp breath. With the darkness and mist combined, visibility was less than three meters.
"Something’s not right!"
Qin Tian’s gaze was solemn. During the recent conference, he had emphasized that once the mist descended, the alarm must be sounded immediately, and everyone must enter an emergency combat-ready state.
But now, almost ten minutes had passed, and the camp was still eerily silent.
Qin Tian quickly walked to the military camp gate, where several soldiers on guard were all lying on the ground, breathing evenly, as if asleep. He crouched down and patted one of the soldiers’ faces, but was unable to awaken him.
"Is there a hallucinogenic substance in the mist?"
Qin Tian frowned, but quickly dismissed this guess. If there was a problem with the mist, his Poisonous Snake Body would have detected it.
Then, Qin Tian went to the dormitory area to check. Whether it was ordinary soldiers or a few Spiritualists, all were asleep, like the soldiers on guard, with no awareness of the outside world.
"What exactly is the reason?"
Qin Tian fell into deep thought. Since there was no poisoning, how did the whole camp fall asleep, and why was he unaffected?
Suddenly, Qin Tian recalled something that had happened earlier.
At the dinner table, the mayor had given him a bowl of rice wine soup. After drinking it, his Body of Ten Thousand Poisons was activated, but no new toxin integrated into him.
Rice wine soup, underground Spiritual Spring.
Spiritual Spring?
Qin Tian’s pupils shrank, suddenly realizing something, and immediately ran in the direction of the town.
After he left, a pair of eyes slowly opened, filled with gloom.
...
Hoo~~~~~
In the mist, a black shadow swiftly shuttled through, like a phantom, moving silently with an eerie body technique.
The distance from the camp to the town was less than twenty kilometers, and within minutes, Qin Tian arrived at Mist Town.
Focusing his attention, he extended his hearing outward.
Like the military camp, the whole town was deathly silent, akin to a ghost town.
"Yes, it must be a problem with the water."
Qin Tian’s eyes flashed with realization. If there was something everyone, including the entire army and town residents, would inevitably come into contact with, it had to be the water.
The town’s underground water contained some substance that wasn’t poisonous, yet could make everyone fall into a deep slumber when the mist arrived.
Shaa shaa shaa~~
At this moment, Qin Tian suddenly heard a series of chaotic yet crisp sounds coming from outside the town, like a mass of sharp objects striking the ground.
"They are coming."
Qin Tian’s eyes became sharp as he quickly concealed his aura and hid in the shadows.
After a while, a large group of black shadows entered the bounds of Mist Town. Under the dense mist, their figures were quite hazy, appearing about half a person’s height, broad-chested and resembling small carts.
Qin Tian infiltrated the shadows and carefully moved closer, finally seeing the true form of this group of black shadows.
They were a group of enormous spiders, half a man’s height, their oval bodies covered with a hard, shiny black exoskeleton. Their eight legs were thick and long like spears, each filled with sharp spurs. At the joints, thick black bristles grew, trembling slightly with their movements, as if each bristle was feeling the surrounding air currents and alert to any possible threats.
The spiders dispersed across different streets, entering high buildings and residential homes. Soon after, a silhouette appeared on each of their backs.
The townsfolk were wrapped in spider silk, adhered to the spiders’ backs, being carried towards the Mist Plain.
Seeing all this, Qin Tian finally understood how the visitors and residents of Mist Town were disappearing.
Buzz~~
Just as Qin Tian was about to take action and save them, he suddenly heard a faint buzzing sound in his ear. With his heat source perception, he sensed dozens of small entities approaching him rapidly.
"They actually found me."
Qin Tian was very surprised. With his Night Demon Physique, he gained a 30% enhancement in all attributes in the darkness, significantly concealing his aura. He could even freely alter his body temperature to merge with the external environment, making it easier to stealth in the dark and shadows.
Unless scanned indiscriminately with spiritual power, it was generally very difficult for anyone to detect his presence.
Is this pure luck, or some other method?
Qin Tian glanced around. The dozen heat sources were getting closer, but strangely, with his vision, he couldn’t see anything, only hearing a faint wing-flapping noise.
"Is this invisibility ability?"
Qin Tian focused his gaze, and the next moment, a faint white poison gas emitted from his body, merging with the white mist. In a short time, it formed a poison gas domain over ten meters in diameter.
As soon as the dozens of heat sources entered the poison gas domain, purple-gold electric arcs suddenly erupted, accurately striking each heat source, instantly reducing their speed. Subsequently, the poison gas began to take effect, invading their bodies.
Buzz buzz~
A clearer sound echoed in the air as twisted light illusions appeared within the white mist, resembling the chaotic images on a malfunctioning TV screen.
Soon, several black shadows fell to the ground, and at the same time, dozens of green light spheres flew toward Qin Tian. After converging, only one deep green talent light sphere remained.
[Name] Light Distortion (Green)
[Type] Active Talent
[Introduction] You can manipulate special energy fields to disrupt and bend surrounding light, refracting it along specific paths to achieve near-perfect optical invisibility.
Qin Tian looked down to see dozens of basketball-sized yellow flying insects lying on the ground, their sharp mouthparts like military daggers, reflecting a dim and profound glow.
Optical invisibility, no wonder their figures couldn’t be seen.
Qin Tian felt a hint of excitement. If it was just pure invisibility, it wouldn’t be hard to be discovered; after all, sound, scent, and heat sources can lead to exposure. But once invisibility combined with his numerous talents, it would become incredibly powerful.
Optical Invisibility + Dark Stealth + Concealing Aura
As mentioned before, unless there’s a large-scale, all-coverage spiritual power sweep, it’s very difficult for anyone to notice his approach.
No, that’s not right.
Then how did these little entities discover me?
Qin Tian frowned, and suddenly, a strong sense of crisis descended upon him.
Without thinking, he sprang up instantly.
Swish swish~~
Several large webs of spider silk landed where he had just been standing. Had he been a fraction of a second slower, he would likely have been entangled in the web.
Qin Tian stood on the rooftop of a three-story shop, overlooking below.
On both sides of the street, dozens of Demon Spiders were slowly closing in on him, their ghostly green eyes like ghost fires in the night, full of cruelty and ferocity.
"Spiritual power detected me?"
Qin Tian turned his head, gazing in the direction of the Mist Plain.