Chapter 214: The Human World is Also an Abyss Battlefield

Chapter 214: The Human World is Also an Abyss Battlefield

Under the neon lights of the night, Iron Arm had Hack lead the way to a crowded square, where a few lines of illuminated words caught their attention on a large screen.

The words boldly stated, "Thank you, Mia, for the Crossbow."

Below it was a string of numbers, handwritten in the Banseer script.

When the Banseer people from Stone Hammer Fortress were teleported, just like the humans who were conscripted, they were imprinted with the common language of the human world.

As a result, they could understand the words on the streets and the conversations around them.

However, the human world seemed incredibly strange to them.

There were too many things they had never seen before, and aside from the appearance of humans, everything else was novel.

It had been five days since their teleportation, and they had been hiding cautiously.

The Banseer people were rarely conscripted; the entire population of Stone Hammer Fortress had only been called upon three times in total, and this was their third time.

Iron Arm gazed at the words on the screen and quickly understood their meaning.

Mia had only given away one crossbow, and it was to Su Muyu.

Iron Arm recognized this as a signal, but he couldn't decipher the meaning of the numbers below.

He kept repeating the numbers to himself, wondering if they were some sort of secret code.

"Leader, could these numbers be a special human code? Should we find a human to ask?" Hack suggested, offering a very insightful idea.

The leader, Iron Arm, agreed and called for a Banseer girl to approach a kind-looking human auntie and inquire about the meaning of the numbers.

The Banseer girl, wearing a mask and a hood, mustered her courage and approached the auntie in the square. She pointed at the numbers on the screen and asked, "Hello, what code do these numbers represent?"

The auntie looked up at the screen and shook her head, "Are these numbers? I've never seen them. Little girl, what are you doing out here alone in the middle of the night? Where are your parents?"

"They are numbers, eleven of them," the Banseer girl quickly recited the numbers.

The auntie, after hearing the string of numbers, was surprised. "Is this a phone number? Is it your family's number? Do you want me to help you call them?"

"No, thank you," the Banseer girl replied, relieved to have an answer, and hurried back to report to her leader.

The Banseer people were simply unfamiliar with the human world, so they didn't recognize the numbers. Now that they knew it was a phone number, the next steps were straightforward.

Using their psychic skills, they controlled a human, obtained a phone, and attempted to dial the number.

Meanwhile, in Edo, Lu Heng, and his companions checked into a hotel for a night's rest before figuring out their next move.

At that moment, Su Muyu's phone rang. She picked it up and saw an unfamiliar number, her eyes lit up with excitement. She answered the call and held the phone to her ear but remained silent.

In fact, this wasn't the first time she had received a call from an unknown number that day.

In the human world, there were others besides the three of them who could understand the Banseer script.

Anyone who had encountered the Banseer people on the Abyss Battlefield could recognize their language.

Naturally, there were people on Blue Planet who could understand this string of numbers.

Among those who understood, there would always be someone who would try to dial the number.

Su Muyu had already received three calls that night, but none of them were from the Banseer people.

Therefore, she was cautious each time she answered, refraining from speaking first.

After the call connected, the other party also remained silent, and the phone was quiet for three seconds.

Then, a conversation between two people could be heard through the phone:

"Is this enough? What's next?"

"I've seen other humans talking to this thing, and it responds with a voice."

"There's no sound."

This was Iron Arm's voice, and Su Muyu could even picture him leaning in to listen closely to the phone.

She quickly greeted them, "I'm Su Muyu, Iron Arm, is that you?"

When Iron Arm heard the voice coming from the phone, his hand trembled, and his face showed a look of astonishment. "I'm Iron Arm. Finding you is a relief; your world is so strange."

"Wait a moment, I'll get Lu Heng to come over," Su Muyu said, grabbing the phone and rushing to find Lu Heng to listen to the call.

Upon learning that they had made contact with Iron Arm, Lu Heng immediately instructed, "It's not convenient to talk on the phone. Let's meet and tell us your current location."

Iron Arm wasn't sure of their exact location, so he read out the street signs nearby.

The street name was sufficient.

Su Muyu took out her phone, checked the map, and sent a Celestial Phoenix to investigate.

Soon after, the three of them drove to the specified street.

Half an hour later, they met with Iron Arm and the other Banseer people.

"It's great to see you; please help me find Mia. She's missing," Iron Arm was so preoccupied with finding his daughter that he couldn't think of anything else.

"How did Mia go missing?" Su Muyu was surprised to have found the Banseer people, but Mia was nowhere to be seen.

"A couple of days ago, Mia went out to find food and never returned. We don't know where she went."

The people here aren't very friendly, and we've been chased by several groups, forcing us to hide," Iron Arm shared his experiences from the past few days.

"Let's not rush things. We'll figure out a way to find Mia together. Are there any more clues?" Lu Heng reassured the elderly father.

"I was tracking Mia's trail, and I suspect she sensed the presence of a demon and went after it," Hack, a member of the Banseer tribe, immediately raised her hand and spoke up.

Lu Heng was familiar with the personality of this powerful Banseer girl. If she had indeed sensed a demon, she would definitely go after it to find out more.

If they were tracking a demon, it was likely related to the mission they were summoned for.

"What is your mission?"

"Our task is to search for demon traces within Edo City, escape the pursuit of demon parasites, and survive for fifteen days," Iron Arm briefly explained the mission in the Abyssal Battlefield.

Upon hearing about the demon parasites, a thought crossed Lu Heng's mind, and he asked, "What about the challenge tasks?"

Iron Arm looked at the mission panel and replied, "The first is to find and eliminate three demon parasites. The second is to reveal the secret of the demon parasites and warn humanity of the impending crisis. There's also a task to capture a special demon alive."

After hearing all the tasks, Lu Heng became more convinced that their mission was indeed what he had guessed.

"Have you found any demon parasites these past few days?"

Iron Arm showed a surprised expression, "We don't need to complete the challenge tasks. We just need to survive the pursuit for fifteen days, and then we can go home."

Lu Heng understood his meaning from his words.

Not every summoned metahuman would dedicate themselves to completing the tasks.

Everyone had different goals.

Moreover, Iron Arm had a unique identity.

As the leader of the Banseer tribe in Stone Hammer Fortress, his death in the Abyssal Battlefield would mean a grim future for his tribe.

In other words, staying alive and returning home was more important to Iron Arm than completing the mission.

Therefore, he chose to hide in the human world for fifteen days and then return once the time was up.

From the perspective of the Banseer tribe's fate, Iron Arm's choice was understandable.

In fact, many human metahumans had similar goals, which were to survive for the required time and then return home alive.

In this cruel era, nothing was more important than making it back home safely.

Lu Heng paused for a moment and asked, "Have you been pursued by demon parasites?"

Iron Arm recalled, "We were chased by a group of humans with terrifying weapons, the kind you call firearms. We couldn't fight back, so we had to keep running from them."

The Banseer tribe was being hunted by humans.

This further confirmed Lu Heng's suspicions.

"Do you know what kind of demon you're supposed to find for the task?" Lu Heng asked.

Iron Arm furrowed his brows in thought, then shook his head, "I haven't had the chance to investigate that. But I vaguely sensed demonic energy from some humans."

Lu Heng slowly nodded, almost certain about the nature of the demon parasites mentioned in the task.

To confirm this, Lu Heng took out a sealed card and handed it to Iron Arm, saying, "Take a look at this."

This sealed card was the one that had sealed the Soul Snatcher.

Iron Arm took the card and noticed a moving demon image on it, which surprised him slightly.

The demon on the card seemed alive, moving within the seal.

"There's a strong demonic presence inside..." He stared at the Soul Snatcher on the sealed card, his eyes wide.

"Check the third challenge task. Is it completed?" Lu Heng prompted.

Iron Arm quickly glanced at the mission panel and was astonished to find that the third challenge task had been marked as completed.

"It's done. The third challenge task is actually completed."

Upon hearing this, Lu Heng instantly understood the situation.

The demon parasites mentioned in the Banseer tribe's mission referred to humans possessed by the Soul Snatcher.

The third challenge task, which involved capturing a special demon alive, meant capturing a living Soul Snatcher.

Coincidentally, Lu Heng had a living demon in his possession, and by handing it over, the challenge task was completed.

Iron Arm examined the demon on the card and frowned, "It looks very much like a Soul Snatcher."

He hadn't encountered a real Soul Snatcher, but he had heard about them in some Banseer legends, which was why he thought so.

"You're right. This is a Soul Snatcher. Your mission is to eliminate the Soul Snatchers and their parasites."

With all the clues connected, the answer was evident.

The Banseer tribe's summoning to the human world was to deal with the Soul Snatcher incident.

Lu Heng clearly remembered the Soul Snatcher incident from his past life, which was exposed a year after the Abyssal Descent.

At that time, multiple politicians in Fusang had been controlled by Soul Snatchers, but the incident was suppressed by the Fusang government, so not much information was released.

Combining this with the Banseer tribe's mission, could it be that the Soul Snatcher incident in his past life was exposed due to the summoning of another world's tribe?

(End of Chapter)

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