Chapter 663 Melee (Part 4)

The fighting was equally intense within the contaminated zone.

"Your opponent is me."

The woman who suddenly appeared was very strange.

It immediately brings to mind the woman Xie Tu met on the endless staircase.

White dress, black fingernails, in pursuit of immortality, she is willing to transform herself into a gatekeeper who is neither human nor ghost.

Fu Yu reacted quickly, drawing the pistol from Xia Mingang's waist and firing a shot at the woman's forehead.

"Bullets are useless against me."

The woman was completely unfazed by the three S-class Sentinels' serious demeanor.

She raised her hand, and the swirling dark substance in her palm seemed to be alive. The bullet was easily swallowed up as if it had been trapped in a jelly.

"What a vibrant and powerful force..."

She took a deep breath as if intoxicated, an unnatural blush rising on her pale face. "Evolved into a higher life form, finally purified and reborn in eternal darkness."

Fu Yu stared at her, slowly uttering, "Madwoman."

The woman didn't take it seriously.

The pale hand gently waved forward.

Everyone felt the air around them suddenly become thick and cold, and a bone-chilling cold, accompanied by countless fragmented and frantic murmurs, drilled directly into everyone's minds.

Pure spiritual erosion.

They attempted to undermine their will from within and corrupt their mental landscape.

Jiang Mu grunted, the veins on his hands gripping the twin swords bulging, and without a word, he jumped off the turtle's back and launched an attack on the woman.

Upon seeing this, Fu Yu immediately dropped the Gatling gun, which was out of ammunition, and drew her dagger to launch an attack from the other side.

Xia Mingang felt a wave of intense nausea and dizziness, but he still gritted his teeth and followed.

The imperfections in the Sentinel's genes are magnified at this moment, exposing the fragility of its mental barrier.

Thankfully, the combat suit provided by Kerry could resist some of the mental intrusion, giving them a chance to fight back, instead of their mental landscape collapsing the moment they made contact.

Therefore, everyone is very clear about this.

This woman must be dealt with as soon as possible.

The woman calmly replied, "You may be considered strong among lower beings, but you are ultimately just incomplete vessels."

She didn't even move much; her pale hand moved as lightly as if playing a zither.

The viscous air around them condensed and deformed, transforming into several pitch-black tentacles carrying cold, corrosive energy, which met the two's attack.

Jiang Mu's twin blades struck the tentacle, sending up a cloud of black mist.

The clash between the blade and the tentacles sent chilling spiritual shocks directly through the weapons.

Fu Heng used her speed to weave through the gaps between the tentacles, and while Jiang Mu was entangled with the tentacles, she found an opportunity to attack the woman with her dagger.

The blade flashed.

The woman was unable to dodge in time and was stabbed in the arm by the dagger.

What flowed out was not blood, but a black liquid.

She had long since become one with the dark matter, and ordinary weapons could not harm her at all.

The woman looked at the rapidly healing wounds on her arm, her face showing not pain, but rather a morbid satisfaction.

Look.

She raised her arm, as if displaying a work of art, “The pain will disappear, the wounds will heal, this body will break free from the cycle of decay and move towards eternity. And you…”

"Still struggling with this fragile body, it's both laughable and pathetic."

Fu Heng wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth caused by the backlash of her spirit, and sneered: "Eternity? Staying in the darkness like a stone, is that eternity? That's not living, that's 'existing,' no different from this pile of mud!"

The woman remained unmoved, her eyes instead filled with pity. "You cannot understand," she said, "that only when time loses its meaning, when death becomes a distant legend, can you glimpse the true mysteries of the universe."

"The joys, sorrows, loves, hates, and passions of lower life forms are nothing more than fleeting electrochemical reactions, utterly worthless."

"The value of life lies precisely in its finiteness."

Fu Yu refuted her values, saying, "It is precisely because we will die that we cherish the time we have to live, that we will desperately protect what is worth protecting, and that we will create infinite meaning within the finite."

She gripped the dagger tightly, the blade pointing at the woman once more. "The eternity you seek... is completely empty."

“That’s right!” Xia Mingang, not quite understanding this woman’s thought process, joined the conversation, panting heavily: “You originally came from a higher planet, and in order to achieve so-called immortality, you turned yourself into a disgusting mass of dark matter…”

"Even if we only live for one day, we are still living as human beings! We have flesh and blood, we cry and laugh! That's a million times better than your cold, dark 'eternity'!"

The woman's ecstatic expression finally faded, replaced by a coldness of offense.

"Foolish! Short-sighted!"

Her voice was shrill, “When you turn to dust, everything you protected will also return to nothingness! Only by merging with the darkness and gaining immortality can you achieve the ultimate evolution!”

Jiang Mu slowly raised his head at this moment and sneered, "Then let you and your darkness rot together for eternity."

Jiang Mu interrupted the debate about life and eternity.

The huge differences in ideas cannot be bridged by words; no amount of talking will help.

As sentinels, their mental strength is not naturally suited to this kind of pure mental confrontation. Time cannot be dragged out for too long; they must end the battle as soon as possible.

The three attacked again.

The woman's lips curled up again: "A lowly race, forever unable to see the vast universe, how pitiful."

However, her smile froze on her face the next second.

She was horrified to discover that an air wall composed of gray mist was rapidly engulfing her domain.

The gatekeeper exists based on obsession. As a so-called higher life form, its obsession is filled with distractions and desires. How can it compare to a robot with a super brain that simply executes commands?

Kerry easily overwhelmed her mental landscape.

The woman has not yet completed her transformation; once her contaminated area is completely covered, she will cease to exist.

"No... This can't be! What... is this?!" The woman's voice was no longer ethereal and mocking, but filled with sharp fear and despair.

Jiang Mu keenly sensed the abnormality, sheathed his twin swords, and signaled Fu Yu and Xia Mingang to retreat quickly, "Back off."

It's unclear what happened.

Fu Heng grabbed Xia Mingang by the back of the neck and pulled him back quickly.

Xia Mingang nearly tripped and couldn't help but yell, "Big-eyed girl! Can you please not be so rude?!"

Upon hearing "Big-Eyed Girl," Fu Heng's movements became even more ruthless, dragging Xia Mingang like cargo to Bixi's side.

Xia Mingang was so choked he almost rolled his eyes back: "...Damn it!"

Not far away.

Overwhelmed by terror, the woman instinctively looked up at the enormous, crimson eye that loomed over the sky, letting out a piercing wail, like a drowning person clutching at a last straw:

"Save me! Your faithful follower begs for your..."

Her cries for help came to an abrupt end.

The giant, scarlet eye hanging high in the sky turned indifferently, its gaze focusing on the tiny woman.

There was no pity, no help.

The woman's body stiffened abruptly, and the light in the dark hole suddenly surged, then quickly dimmed and went out like a punctured balloon.

The look of terror on her face was frozen in time, and the dark matter that made up her body began to boil and dissipate out of control.

"Immortality comes at a heavy price."

Kerry emerged from the gray fog, pulling a long truck, a pale yellow bow on his head.

It said in a cheerful electronic voice, "The price is to become part of the Eye Shadow Clan's consciousness."

Fu Yu, Jiang Mu, and Xia Mingang stood there, stunned.

The woman, who had been so arrogant just moments before, vanished like a shattered illusion, and the last trace of dark energy was mercilessly reclaimed by the enormous scarlet eye in the sky.

Jiang Mu forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart and rubbed his sore temples. "Butler Kerry, didn't you say we couldn't leave the castle?"

Kerry looked completely innocent. "I didn't leave. I just expanded her domain to include the castle's territory."