Chapter 420 The Coming Storm
Over the originally silent Haiyan City, a howling storm continued to invade the city. On the distant horizon, black clouds hung like an iron curtain, pressing the entire sky extremely low, as if they would crash into the sea at any time. The clouds rolled and twisted, and dark purple lightning flashed from time to time inside, but there was no thunder, only a suffocating silence.
The ruins of the city streets looked even more dilapidated in the dim light. The broken high-rise buildings looked like skeletons gnawed by giant beasts. The broken glass fragments reflected an ominous glimmer. The palm trees on the coastal avenue had long been dead, and the dry branches and leaves made a rustling sound in the wind, as if some creature was whispering.
Lin Xian, KIKI and Shiori flew quickly from low altitude towards the orbital station Infinity. The holographic display screen of the power armor kept flashing and the alarm of the Geiger counter continued to sound, as if under this storm, all signals were subject to some kind of strong interference.
"In the clouds and in the sky, there's a lot of monster aura..."
Shiori's tone was tense. The feeling of dark clouds looming over her made her feel as if she were back in Dawn City that night.
"Lin Xian, have you contacted them?" KIKI said to Lin Xian using her telekinesis to prop up a telekinesis shield to block the strong wind.
"No!"
Lin Xian and the other two passed through the streets at high speed, bringing with them a violent gust of wind that blew away all sorts of debris. He looked up at the sky filled with thunder and said in a deep voice:
"They should all be retreating towards the Infinity. If they run into any trouble, the teams should be able to handle it flexibly."
"good!"
Wow!
On the eastern coast of Haiyan Island, connecting to the port bund, the sea began to boil.
It was not an ordinary surge, but the entire sea area seemed to be boiling, rolling up turbid foam. Under the black sea, a huge shadow could be vaguely seen swimming, occasionally floating to the surface, revealing a translucent fluorescent body, and then quickly sinking into the depths.
"The situation is not good." Ning Jing looked at this scene with a gloomy face. She immediately called all the members and prepared to evacuate.
"careful!"
"Where's Abai?" Ning Jing called Brother Huo, but there was no sign of Abai.
"Over there!" Xiaoqing jumped onto the roof of a residential building by the sea and shouted in the strong wind.
"Look!"
Abai's voice came from the communicator. At this time, Ning Jing and Brother Huo both climbed over. Below the road was a rocky black stone coast. As soon as they landed, Lu Xingchen immediately saw that a large number of whale carcasses had mysteriously appeared on the edge of the beach. They were stranded and dead. These deep-sea creatures had rarely gathered after the Apocalypse Day, but here, dozens of them inexplicably appeared.
"Abai, what do you see?" Ning Jing came to Abai's side and found that Abai was looking up at the low black clouds above the open sea. He slowly raised his hand and said nervously: "Can't you see? There is something there!"
As soon as the words fell, Ning Jing and Lu Xingchen looked up, but saw nothing but the dark and boiling sea under the storm.
“Concentrate!”
Xiaoqing swung down from above and said solemnly, "You need to use your mental strength to block the storm before you can see it!"
Ning Jing frowned and immediately activated her full body's supernatural powers to their peak. In an instant, she felt the sea breeze blowing on the outer shell of the power armor began to become sticky and heavy. Amid the howling storm, she raised her head and looked at the dark sea again. This time, her pupils condensed, and an extremely terrifying scene suddenly appeared before her eyes.
Just beneath the black clouds above the sea, several indescribable creatures as huge as mountains were suspended above the sea like hunched and curled skeletons, floating slowly in one direction with the same posture and movements. Countless huge tentacles and legs hung down from the sea like giant upside-down trees!
"What kind of evil spirit is floating in the air in broad daylight?"
Brother Huo's face changed drastically when he saw this scene. The scene in front of him was extremely shocking. These huge monsters all had their heads hunched in the same fetal position, moving strangely towards a certain direction. The shore was littered with a large number of whale carcasses, like a scene from the end of the world!
"We have to evacuate quickly. All information has been cut off."
Boom!
Suddenly, a lot of noises were heard in the industrial port area. At the same time, Ah Bai looked at the boiling sea in front of him and said nervously, "Something is coming up!"
Ning Jing frowned, turned around and locked onto a large warehouse, then made a quick decision: "Hide inside first, and don't let anyone mark you!"
Immediately, a group of people acted quickly and rushed into the warehouse amid the roaring sounds from all directions.
Elsewhere, in a shopping mall building in the coastal commercial district, Sasha's heavy mecha was urgently parked in a basement amid the intensifying storm. Ryunosuke controlled the dust shockwave to cover the team's retreat. Monica stood at the mall's gate square and said sternly, "Hurry, before we're discovered."
After the team members retreated, she suddenly turned her head, opened the nano-mask under her head armor, and instantly fired an invisible sonic sword towards the electric tower on a distant building. The sound of it breaking through the air exploded, and the next moment, the electric tower on the building immediately collapsed in the strong wind, hanging and falling, and a piece of glass on the floor exploded and shattered into pieces in the sky.
At this time, Monica could clearly feel the running sounds in the storm all around her starting to move towards the building, so she took advantage of this movement and quickly retreated with Ryunosuke into the basement of the mall to take temporary shelter.
"Sister Mo, don't we just rush back to Infinity?" Sasha asked Monica.
"These things are coming very fast, let's avoid them first. We don't have that kind of attractant. If we bring the mark back to Infinity, it will be difficult to deal with it." Monica was thinking very clearly. Her sonic ability was extremely sharp and she captured those fast-approaching creatures. The sky storm was full of unknowns. In this situation, she had to make a quick decision.
"It's not even 3 p.m. yet." The building said, "Let's wait, maybe the storm will pass."
"The radiation levels in this storm are very high. We've never encountered this before. How could this happen?" Sasha operated the Flying Peach's computer and immediately released several reconnaissance drones towards the dark basement, saying, "Could this be the approaching floating island that the Falcon Sea Group mentioned?"
"That's possible." Ryunosuke said in a calm voice, "This storm seems alive."
Monica lowered her eyes slightly, observing her surroundings quietly without saying a word.
On the west coast of the island, above the dome of the orbital station, Qian Dele and Shu Qin's team were observing the wind direction with serious expressions.
"Have you seen Lin Xian and the others?" Below, on the Infinity, the fully armed Chen Sixuan shouted into the communicator.
"Not yet." Shuqin responded.
"This storm is too weird. Our information transmission is severely interfered with within a few hundred meters. This is definitely unusual." Luo Yang was operating a handheld interrupter. Hundreds of drones were patrolling and spreading at low altitudes, controlling the formation through node transmission. Even so, the electronic system was still greatly affected, and kept issuing power surge alarms.
Miao Lu and Xiao Yuan were all armed and on guard. Mo Xiaotian was hiding at the doorway, nervously looking at the dark sky above the dome. Sun Yuzhen flew over from a distance and shouted to Chen Sixuan:
"I haven't seen anyone in several directions. How about I expand the range to meet them?"
"No need!" Chen Sixuan shouted immediately, "This isn't a matter of contact right now. They might have run into some trouble if they haven't returned. If that's the case, going out would only cause more trouble. Let Luo Yang use the mecha and drones to patrol!"
"That's right."
Qian Dele jumped down from the dome and landed on the roof of the Infinity with Lu Chang. "We'll use the Infinity as our base and send the robots out to explore and avoid getting marked. This storm reminds me of the Parma Snowfield. A monster tide could erupt at any time. Even getting a level one mark would be enough to put us in trouble."
"Everyone get in the car!"
At this moment, Ding Junyi suddenly walked out from behind Xiao Yuanmiaolu, wearing protective clothing and speaking solemnly to the others, "The blood vine is reacting, and it's the same creature from last time. Don't stay outside!"
Chen Sixuan frowned and immediately said, "Okay, get ready to close the car door!"
"Damn it!" Qian Dele was about to tell the Infinity to deploy its weapons and wait for the rest of the team to arrive, but when he heard Ding Junyi's words, he spat inwardly. His expression turned serious, and he immediately called Luo Yang, who was sitting on the roof controlling the mecha, "Get down and get in."
"good!"
Bang, bang, bang! All the doors of the Infinity armored vehicle were closed at once. Chen Sixuan, holding the giant Night Hunter, kept looking out of the portholes on both sides of the vehicle, while trying to contact Lin Xian.
"Lin Xian...can you hear me?"
"Hiss, hi..." But the only response she got was the noisy sound of electricity.
On the other side, Lin Xian and the other two, who were originally flying at high speed along the coastline, temporarily changed their route at Shizhi's reminder and hid in a hidden cave on the coastal ridge.
"Shiori, are you sure there are atmospheric creatures?"
At the entrance of the cave, Lin Xian and KIKI hid on one side, looking towards the city area on the distant coastline. That was the direction of the Infinity, but it was only a dozen kilometers away. Shizhi hurriedly called them to stop and pointed in the direction of the low clouds on the horizon.
"Something terrible is coming!"
Lin Xian and KIKI looked towards the black cloud, but found nothing except the flashes of dark lightning.
"How strange..." Kiki had also noticed something was wrong. Shiori's intuition was always accurate, but they hadn't seen anything. "How could this storm come so suddenly? It surrounded the entire island in an instant. It's too fast."
Lin Xian said in a deep voice, "I've checked Ryan's surveillance data. That floating island is at least two hundred nautical miles away from Haiyan Island. At that speed, it will take at least three days for this area to be affected by the storm. It can't be this fast."
Although the sea is capricious, this sudden extreme weather phenomenon was completely beyond everyone's expectations. Lin Xian's power armor system can fully sense and analyze meteorological pressure and make climate forecasts. This was prepared when he and Mochizuki Shinji were studying the adaptation of power armor before going to sea. It was to provide better maritime safety for all team members. Who knew that the first storm would cause the intelligent weather system to fail.
At this time, Lin Xian also realized that this storm was definitely not an ordinary natural phenomenon.
"Lin Xian, can you contact Teacher Chen and the others?"
"I'll try."
Lin Xian immediately summoned a large number of small drones from the Black Star Forge. Viola was not there, so he could only manually set the parameters and prepare these drones to fly towards the Infinity in a chain node mode, trying to establish a way of communication.
Rumble.
The ground was shaking, rocks and debris kept sliding down from the ridge, and on the coast below, huge waves violently crashed against the coastline, making a pounding sound.
Just as he was about to release the drone, KIKI suddenly grabbed his hand
"Lin Xian, look!"
Lin Xian stopped what he was doing and leaned over to look in the direction KIKI was pointing. This sight made his hair stand on end and his face turned three inches pale.
At this moment, above the distant coastal city line, the moment the red lightning exploded, the entire black cloud was reflected in a dark red color like a blood scab.
Lin Xian's pupils contracted violently. At the moment when the lightning flashed, a black shadow like the sky collapsing suddenly appeared in his retina. It was not a cloud at all, but the head of a giant beast curled up in the stratosphere!
Like a 'sky canopy' lifted by a volcanic eruption, the red lightning flashed continuously above its head. It did not look like a strange entity at all, but rather some ancient Cthulhu evil god. The head that only showed a part of the thundercloud seemed to be more than tens of kilometers in size. As the clouds rolled, they covered the sky and slowly pressed down towards the city. Just one head and numerous tentacles covered most of the city. Countless giant tentacles slowly rolled over the city. The city buildings below seemed like miniature building blocks in front of it and were not worth mentioning.
This is definitely the largest creature Lin Xian has ever seen. Even the atmospheric creature "Sky Touch" in the sky of Dawn City is not worth mentioning in front of it.
Rumble!
Lightning flashed, and Lin Xian, KIKI, and Shiori were completely shocked by this horrific scene of world destruction. The evil god-like creature slowly twisted its huge tentacles in the sky, and the surrounding air produced an oil film-like refraction, making the sea horizon dozens of kilometers away seem to be folded and stand upright behind its head, as if some kind of spatial distortion had occurred!
"What...what is this?!!!" Lin Xian exclaimed in astonishment
KIKI said with a grim expression, "S-rank? No, this... is even bigger than that giant floating corpse in Jiang City. It's almost like..."
"A world-class disaster?" Lin Xian responded.
"Is it the creature from the deep Pacific Ocean that the Phoenix Society recorded?" Kiki asked.
"Creature No. 04: An unknown Pacific abyssal creature. First discovered in the Pacific and Black Ocean abysses on July 11, 2069. Its form is unknown, but its observed size exceeds 13 kilometers. It once caused the Bol Island tsunami..." Shiori said at this time, "I know this is recorded in the Phoenix Order, but there are no pictures. I only know it is named..."
"Number 04—Giant Ocean God!"
Lin Xian recalled the records in the Phoenix Order. Seeing the scene of world destruction before him, he said solemnly:
"Giant Ocean God...are we too lucky to have encountered him right out to sea..."
"A world-class disaster?" Kiki couldn't believe it. "How could it suddenly appear here?"
“Who knows…”
Lin Xian looked at the terrifying beast from the deep ocean, couldn't help but clenched his fists, and said solemnly
"The Pacific Ocean...it's a nightmare!"
(End of this chapter)
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