Entering Venus and the Mysterious Altar
Su Zhan ultimately succeeded in securing the position.
To successfully infiltrate as an undercover agent, simply landing on Venus in the Chinese sexagenary cycle) is certainly not enough.
The key is to be promoted to an insider and gain access to classified information.
They will do their utmost to help Su Zhan in this regard, but the risks and the required strength are also quite high.
Once the undercover agent was selected, the organization swiftly and efficiently began its operation.
Three days later, Su Zhan successfully entered Venus. This time, he was Mercenary recruited by the previous undercover agent.
Although the Drum Tribe are born extremely powerful and possess exceptional talent for cultivation, achieving twice the results with half the effort.
However, they also have special racial limitations. God made it difficult for them to reproduce, despite their great strength and extremely rapid cultivation progress.
The Drum Tribe has not had a newborn for a century.
Therefore, for many jobs that are not that important or difficult, they will hire Mercenary to make up for the lack of personnel.
Of course, other positions also require outsiders, but compared to others, Mercenary are more likely to get attention and are more likely to be promoted.
High-performing Mercenary have the opportunity to stay with the Drum Tribe and rise through the ranks, which is why they arranged Mercenary status for Su Zhan, although promotion is not an easy task.
This time, they've deployed a large number of Mercenary, apparently because they have a major mission to carry out.
Several more Drum Tribe will join them, leading them on their way.
Several other people were assigned to the same place as Su Zhan, but overall, their strength and wisdom were far inferior to Su Zhan's.
Therefore, Su Zhan is still the main person responsible for this mission, and also the most likely person to stay here and become the final undercover agent.
The organization has not yet received the specific details of this mission.
If you say he's important, he sent mostly Mercenary; if you say he's not important, he also sent three Drum Tribe, one of whom is one of the Seventh Elder.
The organization suspected something was amiss with this mission, so they took it very seriously.
A group of people were sent to Venus on a mission. Upon Venus, an old man dressed in white High Priest robes stood high above them, looking down on them.
He then whispered a few words to the two young men from the Drum Tribe beside him and set off.
The entire group was damnably silent; not a single person spoke. This atmosphere struck Su Zhan as extremely eerie. He glanced at the few people who had come with him.
As the group moved forward, the surroundings became increasingly eerie.
Su Zhan glanced at the other Mercenary continued walking silently, like the dead.
There shouldn't be any rule against talking here, but I don't know why they are all so quiet, and some of them look serious or even pessimistic.
Unable to figure out the situation, Su Zhan could only continue walking forward with the group.
As he walked, he saw a huge High Priest ahead, carved with mysterious ancient patterns that looked eerie and terrifying.
I don't know what it was used for in the past. Now, this Altar has been abandoned for many years and is overgrown with weeds, making people feel extremely depressed.
Finally, one of the Drum Tribe spoke.
"The reason I've invited everyone here today is because a large number of rare and exotic beasts have been discovered in this area. Their flesh and blood are of great help to our cultivation, so we need to hunt them down in large numbers."
"This time, we will give you 40% of the collected revenue as your reward, so please make sure you give it your all."
They claimed they were going to hunt strange beasts, but instead of having the Mercenary disperse or attack in groups, they ordered them to remain gathered there.
The old man from the Drum Tribe walked up to the Altar, cut his wrist, and let a few drops of blood drip straight into a small groove in the center of the Altar.
Two young men from the Drum Tribe stood guard to one side, seemingly on guard against something.
The old man's blood dripped into the small groove, and within seconds, it disappeared rapidly, absorbed by the blood.
High Priest altar remained silent. A young man from the Drum Tribe said to the Mercenary below, "Please surround the Altar and defend it."
"The strange beasts that have appeared here are extremely powerful. The Altar has the effect of enhancing strength and can grant everyone power for a short period of time."
Su Zhan listened, and it became increasingly strange.
This Altar is utter nonsense; it doesn't look like it can actually enhance your strength at all.
But he couldn't show his guard too obviously, so he could only go with the flow and follow the crowd around the Altar twice.
When Su Zhan looked up at the center of the Altar again, the entire Altar, which had been desolate before, was now radiating waves of light, as if it had suddenly gained a powerful Life Element.
Su Zhan was greatly shocked and took a step back from the circle.
Instantly, the surrounding Mercenary collapsed to the ground with thuds, their bodies convulsing and shrinking rapidly, as if their flesh and blood were being sucked away. In no time, they all turned into dried corpses.
What an evil Altar!
Su Zhan quickly conjured up an Independent Space around him, a space designed to separate the two worlds.
With this thin barrier, the Altar could not absorb his vision.
But strangely, he didn't feel his power being absorbed before the barrier was built.
In the blink of an eye, the Altar, which had been crowded with people, was now empty except for the three Drum Tribe and Su Zhan.
The group confronted each other, with Su Zhan looking wary.
The three members of the Drum Tribe looked puzzled.
"What's going on? Why didn't this person fall down?"
They kept a close eye on Su Zhan, but showed no intention of making a move.
If the enemy doesn't move, I won't move either; Su Zhan merely looked back.
They assumed Su Zhan some extraordinary encounter or secret, since these Mercenary were all foreigners with diverse racial backgrounds, and they didn't consider the possibility of him being an undercover agent.
They asked, "Who are you?"
Su Zhan did not reply, but stared at them warily.
The elder from the Drum Tribe explained, "Most of the people who came here are long-term Mercenary who have followed the Drum Tribe. They know the details of this mission, and they came voluntarily."
"The rest, those we don't know about, are either vicious criminals or enemies of the Drum Tribe. They should be executed anyway. It's no big deal. We're not bad people."
Su Zhan didn't believe a word he said.
I don't know about others, but at least the people who came with Su Zhan were not the kind of people who knew about this mission, nor were they anyone who had a grudge against them or committed heinous crimes.
The background of the dead Mercenary is just something this person can decide; anyway, they're all dead.
Su Zhan pretended to believe them and said, "Really? Then why bring them here to be executed?"
The old man simply said, "It's a secret!"
Su Zhan: "I'm from Silver Star. I heard they were Mercenary here. They weren't planning to take me at first, but then they said they needed more people, so they brought me back."
The old man said, "They actually dared to arrest people randomly! I'll teach them a lesson when I find out, don't worry!"