Chapter 461 Leap
"Fuck you!!!"
Lin Xian looked at the rapidly speeding countdown in his sight and immediately realized that he must have guessed correctly. This countdown was indeed related to the black gear, but he didn't understand. When he got it from Chen Yanxiu before, he also studied it for a while. Why didn't he have such a reaction at that time?
48, 47, 46...
The countdown was like a bomb, retreating wildly in front of Lin Xian's eyes, and Lin Xian's heartbeat and blood pressure soared at the same time!
What to do, it's almost over.
What happens when the countdown ends?
This is definitely not a good sign. If this countdown is related to the black gear, then it means that this countdown is most likely imposed on him by Chen Yanxiu, which is definitely not a good thing!
Lin Xian's brain was working frantically at this moment, and even his breathing became rapid.
44, 43, 42...
"Why would time speed up? This doesn't make sense. If it could speed up, why didn't Chen Yanxiu use it from the beginning?"
"Did I run into something?"
Lin Xian's mouth was dry at the moment. He picked up the black gear and brought it close to his eyes. He forced himself to remain calm and then observed the black gear very carefully.
The black gears are not pure black. They look more like the color left by long-term fire quenching in some car or device. There are 68 teeth on them, and the black color has a special sense of fluidity when you look at it, which gives people a strange feeling.
Lin Xian knew that this was a phenomenon caused by the dark energy fluctuations above, but he continued to observe and could not find any clues.
39, 38, 37...
As time passed, Lin Xian became more and more nervous.
"What the hell, what did I do?"
"Calm down, there must be something you haven't noticed."
Lin Xian took a deep breath, raised his hand to create a stool for himself and sat down, then looked at the black gear in his hand and fell into deep thought.
"If it was Chen Yanxiu who did it, what was his purpose? He said at the time that killing me was the master's order, but the order was rescinded, so his purpose wasn't to kill me?"
"The leader of the Holy Revelation should have a considerable understanding of forbidden objects, but how did he know about my flash bullets? Or does he have something else on him? Logically, the flash bullets are not on me, so the Holy Revelation's forbidden object detector should not be able to find them..."
30, 29, 28
Lin Xian closed his eyes, pinched his brows, and quickly sorted out his thoughts.
"The forbidden object, the Lord's power, is related to the Great Ocean God? That's not right."
"The flash bullet was placed with Grace by me using a brain-computer converter. Is it related to Grace?"
"etc……"
Lin Xian raised his head and looked around in thought: "Gamma-ray burst!"
"Grace said she encountered a gamma-ray burst. Is it related to the forbidden object or some other energy?"
"Why did I suddenly lose contact with Chu Yan..."
"Disconnect..."
Lin Xian chewed a few words in his mouth, his brows slowly gathered, and suddenly he reacted and remembered what Chen Yanxiu said.
[It seems... you are also very obsessed with the power of taboo objects. You should know that these are all... gifts from the Lord.]
We will meet again, Sword Bearer
Boom!
A flash of thunder seemed to pass through Lin Xian's mind, and he suddenly had a terrible idea.
Chen Yanxiu's purpose was not to kill him, but he had a higher goal than Lin Xian.
South Gate of Heaven!
“Grace!”
No response.
Nantianmen lost contact!
Lin Xian's heart trembled, and his breath began to turn cold.
20, 19, 18...
Nan Tianmen lost contact, and he and Chu Yan lost contact, which meant that the Phoenix Society also severed contact with Nan Tianmen.
“Oh no…”
Lin Xian once had such doubts. After all, the power he used to restrain darkness and become the Swordsman was essentially relying on the flashing bullets from the darkness. Taboos were able to break through the giant curtain of the sky and contact the South Heaven Gate. If this power was spied on, then this card would most likely completely lose its deterrent effect, because Lin Xian knew clearly that the power of taboos did not belong to humans.
From last night until now, he has not had time to contact Grace. Unexpectedly, after one night, he has completely lost contact with Grace.
"No, we can't just sit there and wait for death."
Lin Xian gritted his teeth and immediately concentrated his mental power between his eyebrows, trying to sense the flashing bullet.
Nothingness.
15, 14, 13...
Lin Xian continued to sense, and gradually, he finally had a little connection with the flashing bullet again. The feeling was very subtle, as if he was isolated by a layer of gauze, but Lin Xian knew that he still maintained the acceptance of the flashing bullet.
“Found it!”
The next moment, Lin Xian's mind was filled with a myriad of emotions. He knew that once he was teleported to the South Heaven Gate, his situation would be extremely dangerous. First of all, he was not sure whether the South Heaven Gate still existed at the moment, or in what space the Flashing Bullet was. Even if everything was normal, he would be faced with an impenetrable sky curtain. If he could not return to the ground, he could only hope that there were supplies in the South Heaven Gate that would prevent him from starving to death in low-Earth orbit.
But the countdown is about to reach zero. Perhaps, moving myself to another place is also an option to protect other teammates?
Thinking of this, Lin Xian took a deep breath, closed his eyes and concentrated his brows, preparing to complete a low-Earth orbit crossing.
But just two seconds after he closed his eyes, Lin Xian slowly opened his eyes again, stood still, and his eyes kept flickering.
"Strange! I'm still trying to contain the Flash Bullet, so why can't I contact Grace?"
Lin Xian looked down at the black gear in his hand and frowned slightly.
"Grace, can you hear me?"
No response.
10, 9, 8...
There are only 10 seconds left.
Lin Xian did not give up and continued to concentrate his consciousness and call out.
"Grace."
This time, he raised his voice.
【I am here.】
A faint voice as if wrapped in ten layers of cotton cloth sounded deep in Lin Xian's mind. It was not Grace's tone that was the problem, but this voice, or this connection, was obscured by a thick layer of fog.
When Lin Xian heard Grace's voice, his heart was immediately shocked, but he did not feel any joy at this moment. Instead, he asked directly
"Can you contact Chu Yan?"
[Ms. Chu Yan sent me a signal through the consciousness link 13 minutes ago in an attempt to contact you. The Phoenix Society has an important message for you.]
"What information?"
The Phoenix Star Center has recently been subjected to numerous infiltration attacks. The Night Walkers and the North American United Front sent in reconnaissance teams and discovered that the Adventists were targeting Chu Yan in an attempt to prevent the Phoenix from controlling the Southern Heavenly Gate. However, the Phoenix Order maintained tight control and was not significantly affected. Miss Chu Yan has asked me to quickly convey a message from the Phoenix Commander, Ye Lan, stating that the Southern Heavenly Gate's deterrent is significant, not just due to its ground-based firepower, but also due to a factor that poses a greater threat to dark civilizations.
"I guessed it, but I'm in trouble now, so I might not have much time..."
[Another piece of information: Someone from the Phoenix Society who infiltrated the Advent Cult relayed that the Advent Cult had received some kind of directive to eliminate you and Miss Chu Yan. The latest news is that this directive has been secretly withdrawn, but it seems that different factions within the Advent Cult have not implemented this new directive, so attacks against you may still exist.]
Lin Xian's eyes fixed when he heard this, and he immediately looked at the black gear in his hand, and an inexplicable question came to his mind.
"Did I really seize this forbidden object?"
…
On a large island in the Pacific Ocean, a huge metal base complex stands among the semi-bedrock mountains, as if it were some kind of device embedded in the entire island.
Outside this metal building complex, countless drones hovered like a sinking swarm of bees. The barrels of automatic machine guns shone with a cold metallic light as they hung low, coexisting with the holographic light curtain with a gene chain model flowing on the wall. Inside and outside the base, a large number of guards in power armor formed a strict square formation, both men and women, all patrolling in an orderly manner.
A patrol team walked into one of the metal-walled buildings at this time, but the scene inside suddenly changed. Unlike the steel rock wall outside, it seemed like a huge natural forest. Moss grew out of the metal joints and covered the moss pots maintained by the automatic irrigation system. A large number of landscaped plants and trees complemented each other, making this place like a paradise.
In the bright circular room, there are no desks or windows, and it is surrounded by honeycomb-shaped sound insulation materials. In such an environment, there is no ambient noise, and even one's own heartbeat and blood flow can be heard clearly.
The door of the room opened silently, and Chen Yanxiu, wearing a casual jacket, walked in slowly. After the door behind him closed, even the sound of his footsteps disappeared. He looked at the woman standing in the middle of the room in the light, stopped in the distance, and waited until the woman slowly opened her eyes from closing them to listen before he spoke.
"It's almost time."
His voice was a little urgent, but his words had no echo in the room, sounding extremely short and strange.
The woman turned around, with short hair and a windbreaker, her face was stern, and her eyes were calm yet unfathomable.
Hua Xiaoling.
"I've said before that what you're doing goes against the Lord's will. It's completely foolish and will do no good."
"Hmph, don't give me that."
Chen Yanxiu's eyes darkened. "We humans are the only ones who know best how cunning humans are. The best way to deal with threats to the Master is to eliminate them directly. You will understand later how loyal I am to the Master's arrival."
Hua Xiaoling smiled slightly upon hearing this and said calmly, "Only humans understand human cunning, but only the Master knows His will. The threat you perceive may not exist for the Master, but your folly is real. You think you can use a black gear to cut off all of Lin Xian's forbidden objects. Do you think that will solve the problem? Or do you believe that the Nantianmen is the real threat?"
Chen Yanxiu's eyes flickered as he said in a cold voice, "I know the Master's will better than you do, and I also have my own understanding. The disappearance of any of these three terms, Lin Xian, Sword Bearer, or Nantianmen, will have a positive effect on the Master's arrival. I don't care about your experiments or your philosophical thinking. Our divine revelation focuses only on the realm of power."
Hua Xiaoling turned around upon hearing this and said nonchalantly, "You underestimate Lin Xian, or rather, you underestimate the Phoenix Society. Chen Yanxiu, the silver pocket watch and the black gear are your two life-saving trump cards, and they are also the foundation of your construction of the Divine Revelation. Giving them to Lin Xian like this, aren't you afraid that they will never come back?"
"rest assured."
Chen Yanxiu snorted, "The black gears can travel in the Xingyuan dimension, but there's a major side effect. Without my silver pocket watch, you're doomed. I just need to recalibrate the location and contain it. Wait a few minutes, and I'll send someone to help you retrieve the swordsman's body... Oh, or maybe we won't even find it."
"Yeah?"
Hua Xiaoling glanced sideways, smiling slightly: "Then I will wait for good news."
Seeing Hua Xiaoling's reaction, Chen Yanxiu's eyes flashed with anger, and he immediately turned around and left quickly. After going out, he took out a strange instrument, and then his own supernatural power fluctuations flashed, and the instrument began to mark a direction, and then he pressed the communicator.
"Team 3, Team 4, set off immediately after daybreak!"
After finishing his explanation, Chen Yanxiu looked back at the direction of the room, his eyes gradually turned cold.
"Failure to act decisively in the face of threats is a foolish act that will ultimately lead to the destruction of human civilization or any other civilization!"
…
This is an unknown sea area. The waves are calm and quiet, shrouded in thick sea fog. The Infinity is half floating on the water. The front and rear carriages cannot see each other because of the sea fog. The visibility is extremely low. The only sound is the splashing of waves. It is quiet and eerie.
On the Infinity, many people have begun to wake up because of the vibration caused by the change in water pressure due to surging. Under the baptism of the surging evolutionary dark energy transformed by the regional black chrysanthemum, everyone who has experienced a thrilling night has ushered in an unprecedented evolution. Even Ning Jing, Shu Qin and Xiao Qing, who have extremely strong willpower, cannot resist the strong mental shock and fall into a deep sleep.
Everyone who woke up at this time felt the sudden increase in the power of evolution. Some were shocked, some were hesitant, and some were not used to it.
"Captain Lin."
Ning Jing walked out of her rest room with an alert look on her face. She contacted Lin Xian immediately, but got no response. She happened to meet Qian Dele, Shu Qi and others who were walking towards the front carriage.
"Was there no one on duty last night?" Ning Jing asked immediately.
Qian Dele stopped at this moment, with an expression like he had just woken up from a hangover and said, "That force was too strong, it was really hard to resist, but it seems we are still lucky." He checked the time and said, "It will be dawn soon, everything is normal."
"Me too. I wanted to hold on, but it just didn't work." Shu Qin also looked remorseful at this moment. After saying this, she said to Qian Dele, "I feel like my Soul Value has definitely increased a lot now."
"My eyes have changed. I feel like I can gather more energy." Luo Yang also said with a surprised expression.
"What's going on? We absorbed a lot of black energy, but it seems we didn't kill any monsters."
"It's about the hunting of the giant ocean god." At this time, Monica and Vanessa came from behind.
"I just asked, and the situation over at the Falcon Sea Regiment is similar to ours."
She looked at Vanessa and said, "It seems like you guys got quite a few Dark Energy Copper Orbs this time."
Vanessa shrugged, pulled out a Soul Drain meter, and said with a half-smile, "But it seems you have something on your train that's even more powerful than our Dark Energy Copper Ball. Thanks to you, I've now reached a peak of nearly 8,000. The lattice still needs some time to adapt, but I can at least reach a fluctuation of over 15,000 points."
"Adapt?" Qian Dele looked puzzled: "It sounds weird."
Monica then said, "It's easy to understand. As the energy level increases, the density of crystals in the body also needs to evolve, just like the expansion of electrical energy, right?"
She looked at Vanessa as she finished speaking. Vanessa immediately nodded and looked at her and said, "Yes, it seems that you have already made some preparations and plans for the lattice?"
Monica smiled slightly, raised her index finger, and after a wave of supernatural power, some almost tangible ripples appeared at her fingertips, and when she listened carefully, there seemed to be a low humming sound.
Vanessa's eyes narrowed slightly as she looked at him, and she said in surprise, "The materialization of supernatural powers has already reached the realm of transcendence."
"Is this how Phoenix sets standards?" Shu Qin asked.
"It's not hard to guess."
Vanessa said bluntly, "The Night Walkers won't simply use numbers to divide people. It's certain that when they reach this level, their abilities or those with abilities will undergo substantial changes. This standard was set to facilitate differentiation and grading. Anyway, we discovered that abilities tend to trend in this direction when the peak of lattice evolution approaches 20,000. The Phoenix Society uses 30,000 as the dividing line, so this kind of assessment should be included in their analysis."
"You are obviously a genetic evolver, but you can use dark energy slashes to cause large-scale destruction. Is this the kind of materialization you are referring to?" Ning Jing also asked.
After saying this, Xiaoqing from the back room also came out, and seemed very interested in this topic.
Vanessa nodded: "Almost. You should be able to sense it."
Upon hearing this, Shuqin lowered her head and clenched her fists. As her mental strength focused, a trembling force vibrated around her fists, dissipating visibly without the naked eye. She frowned slightly and felt the incomparable surge of power. She had no doubt that the power of her punch now was comparable to that of a cannonball.
Xiaoqing was already aware of this, and Vanessa bluntly stated, "You still need to break through a little bit. Generally, around 12,000 or 13,000, you'll have a clearer grasp of dark energy. Of course, this varies from person to person."
"Where's Captain Lin?" Lu Chang said with some annoyance. "I had a lot of dreams tonight. I don't know what happened. It seems to be getting light now. Should we..."
"Captain Lin." Ning Jing immediately pressed the communicator.
After a while, there was no response. Shuqin frowned and contacted Chen Sixuan: "Captain Chen?"
Everyone looked at each other, exchanged glances in tacit understanding, and immediately started walking towards the car in front.
In carriage No. 5, Loulou and Ryunosuke had just woken up. When they saw a group of people walking towards them in a hurry, they immediately felt something was wrong.
"What's wrong?"
"Has Captain Lin left the cabin?"
“I don’t know,” the building responded.
Ning Jing immediately said, "Wake up Brother Huo and the others. It will be dawn soon and we will disperse."
"good!"
Everyone took action immediately. When they arrived at the Tianxing 5C nuclear-powered carriage in front of the cockpit, they found KIKI standing at the cockpit door with a strange look on his face.
"KIKI."
"Wait, don't come over here!" KIKI shouted and raised her hand to stop the people who were rushing over.
At this moment, Lin Xian was sitting in the driver's seat of Infinity, with his eyes open, his whole body motionless as if he had fallen into some kind of time stagnation. His hair, skin, and even the dust around him were solidified. Viola, who was standing next to him, stretched out her mechanical fingers and tried to touch Lin Xian, but she was frozen in place. The scene was extremely weird.
"What happened?!" Ning Jing asked immediately.
KIKI looked at the scene with great anxiety, and said without turning his head: "I don't know, it may be dangerous, everyone be careful."
After she finished speaking, she remembered something and turned around and shouted
"Shiori."
"Wasn't she here taking care of Captain Lin last night?" Monica asked.
"She's here."
Click, the door of carriage No. 1 at the rear opened, and Chen Sixuan and Shizhi walked out of the bedroom one after another. They had both just woken up, and regardless of the changes in their bodies, they rushed out immediately after hearing the noise outside.
"Shiori." Kiki immediately shouted to Shiori, "Hurry, help Lin Xian and see what happened to him."
Shizhi looked a little flustered at the moment. After hearing this, she walked up without any hesitation, but was grabbed by KIKI's shoulders.
"Don't come closer, just at this distance."
Shiori nodded and hastily used her special ability, but the light green healing energy was instantly faded and eliminated within a space of half a meter around Lin Xian, as if it was swallowed up by something at a very fast speed.
"ah!"
Shiori was shocked: "It doesn't seem to work."
"What happened to Captain Lin?" Shu Qin asked hurriedly.
KIKI shook her head: "I don't know, he might be locked by some force."
As she spoke, she looked at the time. More than 50 minutes had passed since Lin Xian entered this state. Judging from what Lin Xian had just said, the countdown should be about to end.
At this moment, KIKI was extremely anxious and could only watch helplessly without any way to do anything.
Just when everyone was confused and feeling weird, a weak energy burst out and Lin Xian suddenly recovered from his stagnation.
"Lin Xian!" Kiki turned around suddenly.
But Lin Xian stood up at this moment, with an anxious and gloomy look on his body. He turned around and looked at the people in Infinity in the corridor, and everyone was looking at him at the same time.
"Captain Lin."
"Lin Xian!"
Lin Xian didn't say anything, his lips moved, and the numbers in front of him showed only the last few seconds.
He immediately took out the black gear and looked at the black sea outside the porthole. Then the next moment, accompanied by a leap of energy fluctuations and flashing air waves, the whole person disappeared directly in the cockpit!
(End of this chapter)
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